Best American Travel Writing 2017

By Jason Wilson

“The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book Review

Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy and beautiful world, offering readers glimpses into places that many will never see or experience except through the eyes and words of these writers" (Kirkus Reviews).  This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre’s gold standard.   

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781328742339

Jason Wilson

Jason Wilson is the director of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy and the author of Cry Like a Man and Battle Cry. He received the President's Volunteer Service Award from President Obama and acclaimed actor Laurence Fishburne executive produced an award-winning ESPN Films documentary about Jason's transformative work with boys, titled The Cave of Adullam. Jason has over twenty-seven years of martial arts experience and more than seventeen years dedicated to the development of African American males. He is a man of the Most High, a faithful husband for over twenty-five years, and a devoted father of two beautiful children.

Reviews for Best American Travel Writing 2017

[sarahebear · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I am a big fan of travel writing, and certainly enjoyed the set of tales and adventures offered by the authors who contributed to the 2017 edition. I do read a lot of this type of book, and have to admit that these are some of the best written. However, they are not necessarily the ones I enjoy the most, or find the most interesting. One complaint - the publishers have cheaped out on type set and print, so the font is very small and closely spaced. This makes it difficult to read and detracts from the enjoyment of the book. Last words: Its a good read for the armchair and actual traveller alike..

[dianaleez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As an armchair traveller, I look forward to the yearly release of ‘The Best American Travel Writing.’ The 2017 edition by Lauren Collins lived up to my expectations.Collins has included essays from publications as diverse as ‘The Virginia Quarterly Review,’ ‘BuzzFeed,’ and ‘Creative Nonfiction,’ to the usual mix of ‘New Yorker,’ ‘NYT,’ and ‘Harper’s Magazine’ offerings.I confess that most of the authors are unfamiliar to me, but with the wide variety of style and subject offered, I had no trouble finding essays that I enjoyed reading. I found Tom Bissell’s story, “My Holy Land Vacation,” exploring the connections between the US religious Right and Israel thought-provoking. But it was Kantor and Einhorn’s “Refugees Hear a Foreign Word: Welcome” that I found most intriguing. I can give the potential purchaser a list of others that I particularly enjoyed, but, perhaps, more to the point would be a quick topic list: whale hunting in Alaska, locating a plane wreck in the mountains of Bolivia, and hunting mycorrhizal fungi. The offerings are varied and most, if not all, are both entertaining and informative.(A free review copy was provided by the publisher.)