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For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving testaments to…mehr
For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.
In this book, readers will:
Deposit a loved one's ashes in a Bolivian River
Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in rural Ireland
Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in Cameroon
Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after many years away
Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the Grand Canyon in Arizona
Engage loss and the specter of death in Mexico
Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter
Encounter the realities of prostitution in Thailand
Absorb the rhythms and soul of Flamenco in Spain
Fall in love with a home in rural France and make it your own...
and much more
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James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He's visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Leavenworth, Washington and Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (birdcagepress.com). Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has visited more than fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he coauthored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, and for thirty-one years wrote a syndicated newspaper column, World Travel Watch. Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (prosedoctors .com), and editor in chief of Triporati.com, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Sean O'Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers¿ Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and three of their six children. He's had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your Destructive Impulses with Cyber Kinetics and Authority. He is also CEO and founder of the Auriga Distribution Group, Johnny Upright, Fifth Access, and Redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.
Inhaltsangabe
Fishing with Larry Tom Joseph Bolivia Red Lights and a Rose Joel Carillet Bangkok The Bamenda Syndrome David Torrey Peters Cameroon Ashes of San Miguel Tawni Vee Waters Mexico The Memory Bird Carolyn Kraus Poland Protected Peter Wortsman Germany Into the Hills Matthew Crompton India Flight Behavior Amy Butcher Nebraska The Tea in Me Bill Giebler India Oranges and Roses Amy Gigi Alexander Paris Flamenco Form Nancy Penrose Spain Ghost on Ice Cameron McPherson Smith Alaska Discalced Bruce Berger Baja We Wait for Spring, Moldova and Me Kevin McCaughey Moldova Masha Marcia DeSanctis Moscow Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul Erin Byrne Ireland Barren in the Andes Laura Resau Ecuador Fish Trader Ray Lisa Alpine The Amazon Remember This Night Katherine Jamieson Guyana Love and Lies in Iran Mario Kaiser Iran Castles in the Sky Jennifer Baljko Barcelona Philomen and Baucis Pamela Cordell Avis France The Empty Rocker Kathleen Spivack Amsterdam The Train at Night Gina Briefs-Elgin Aboard Amtrak Beneath the Rim Michael Shapiro Grand Canyon Mysterious Fast Mumble Bruce Berger Baja Storykeepers Erin Byrne Paris Moving West, Writing East Tom Miller US/Mexico Border From the Ashes James Michael Dorsey Cambodia Inside the Tower Keith Skinner Monterey Peninsula Deep Travel, Notre Dame Erin Byrne Paris The Good Captain Glenda Reed The Pacific Ocean The Train to Harare Lance Mason Botswana
Fishing with Larry Tom Joseph Bolivia Red Lights and a Rose Joel Carillet Bangkok The Bamenda Syndrome David Torrey Peters Cameroon Ashes of San Miguel Tawni Vee Waters Mexico The Memory Bird Carolyn Kraus Poland Protected Peter Wortsman Germany Into the Hills Matthew Crompton India Flight Behavior Amy Butcher Nebraska The Tea in Me Bill Giebler India Oranges and Roses Amy Gigi Alexander Paris Flamenco Form Nancy Penrose Spain Ghost on Ice Cameron McPherson Smith Alaska Discalced Bruce Berger Baja We Wait for Spring, Moldova and Me Kevin McCaughey Moldova Masha Marcia DeSanctis Moscow Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul Erin Byrne Ireland Barren in the Andes Laura Resau Ecuador Fish Trader Ray Lisa Alpine The Amazon Remember This Night Katherine Jamieson Guyana Love and Lies in Iran Mario Kaiser Iran Castles in the Sky Jennifer Baljko Barcelona Philomen and Baucis Pamela Cordell Avis France The Empty Rocker Kathleen Spivack Amsterdam The Train at Night Gina Briefs-Elgin Aboard Amtrak Beneath the Rim Michael Shapiro Grand Canyon Mysterious Fast Mumble Bruce Berger Baja Storykeepers Erin Byrne Paris Moving West, Writing East Tom Miller US/Mexico Border From the Ashes James Michael Dorsey Cambodia Inside the Tower Keith Skinner Monterey Peninsula Deep Travel, Notre Dame Erin Byrne Paris The Good Captain Glenda Reed The Pacific Ocean The Train to Harare Lance Mason Botswana
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