The Best American Travel Writing AUTH-377106 excerpts chosen by author Georgann

excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist who writes the popular "Balancing Acts" column in the Boston Globe

Union forces held a sizeable portion of eastern North Carolina's northern coastal region

The third section discusses one of the key elements of Renaissance culture: the revival of interest in the cultural products of the ancient world

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The Best American Travel Writing AUTH-377106 excerpts chosen by author GeorgannIn his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that "spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocation and the strange, unholy need to record the experience." With this in mind, Bourdain and series editor Jason