Reprinted from various periodicals. Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-328).
Contents:
Tourist Trap / Zha, Jianying. The Great Divide / Crowell, Maddy -- Uncomfortable Silences: a walk in Myanmar / Fettling, David -- Finished / Gregory, Alice -- How the Chile Pepper took over the world / Gross, Matt -- I walked from Selma to Montgomery / Haile, Rahawa -- Morsi the Cat / Hessler, Peter -- A visit to Chernobyl:Travel in the Postapocalypse / Hewitt, Cameron -- Paper Tiger / Jarvis, Brooke -- Keepers of the Jungle / Knafo, Saki -- Mother Tongue / Loredo, Lucas -- Is this the most crowded island in the world? (and why that question matters) / MacGregor, Alex -- Taming the Lionfish / MacGregor, Jeff -- If these walls could talk / Markham, Lauren -- The floating world / Mauk, Ben -- Irmageddon / O'Neil, Devon -- Water and the wall / Paumgarten, Nick -- How Nashville became one big bachelorette party / Petersen, Anne Helen -- These brazilians traveled 19 hours on a riverboat to vote. I went with them / Sims, Shannon -- Cursed fields / Sneider, Noah -- The end of the line / Vollmann, William T. -- "The Greatest" / Wilson, Jason -- Tributary / Yen, Jessica -- Tourist Trap / Zha, Jianying.
Summary:
A collection of the best travel writing published in 2019, selected by Alexandra Fuller.
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.