"A Mariner original." Reprinted from various periodicals.
Contents:
The currency of moons / Kim Wyatt. My Holy Land vacation / Tom Bissell -- Chiefing in Cherokee / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Cliffhanger / Peter Frick-Wright -- The ones who left / Jackie Hedeman -- The big leap / Leslie Jamison -- Refugees hear a foreign word: welcome / Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn -- Finding the forgotten / Randall Kenan -- Waiting on a whale at the end of the world / Saki Knafo -- Plum crazy / Gwendolyn Knapp -- Land of the lost / David Kushner -- On the road / Gideon Lewis-Kraus -- The secrets of the wood wide web / Robert Macfarlane -- Volunteering for the harvest / Ann Mah -- The away team / Alexis Okeowo -- A palpable history / Tim Parks -- Eva, she kill her one daughter / Shelley Puhak -- One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- Citizen Khan / Kathryn Schulz -- No amount of traffic or Instagrammers or drunks can take the magic out of (semi-) wilderness / Wells Tower -- My father's house / Reggie Ugwu -- The currency of moons / Kim Wyatt.
Summary:
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.