Best American Travel Writing 2019
by Fuller, Alexandra (EDT)







Forewordxi
Introductionxv
Overlooking Guantanamo
1(19)
Stephen Benz
From New England Review
The Great Divide
20(10)
Maddy Crowell
From Harper's Magazine
Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar
30(13)
David Fettling
From Longreads
Finished
43(12)
Alice Gregory
From TheNew Yorker
How the Chile Pepper Took Over the World
55(17)
Matt Gross
From Airbnb Magazine
Walked from Selma to Montgomery
72(8)
Rahawa Haile
From Buzzfeed
Morsi the Cat
80(15)
Peter Hessler
From The New Yorker
A Visit to Chernobyl: Travel in the Postapocalypse
95(14)
Cameron Hewitt
From Rick Steves' Europe
Paper Tiger
109(16)
Brooke Jarvis
From TheNew Yorker
Keepers of the Jungle
125(7)
Saki Knafo
From Travel + Leisure
Mother Tongue
132(22)
Lucas Loredo
From Oxford American
Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
154(13)
Alex Macgregor
From Longreads
Taming the Lionfish
167(20)
Jeff Macgregor
From Smithsonian
If These Walls Could Talk
187(13)
Lauren Markham
From Harper's Magazine
The Floating World
200(17)
Ben Mauk
From The New York Times Magazine
Irmageddon
217(14)
Devon O'neil
From Outside Magazine
Water and the Wall
231(20)
Nick Paumgarten
From The New Yorker
How Nashville Became One Big Bachelorette Party
251(17)
Anne Helen Petersen
From Buzzfeed
These Brazilians Traveled 18 Hours on a Riverboat to Vote. I Went with Them
268(10)
Shannon Sims
From Pacific Standard
Cursed Fields
278(14)
Noah Sneider
From Harper's Magazine
The End of the Line
292(28)
William T. Vollmann
From Smithsonian
"The Greatest"
320(18)
Jason Wilson
From The Washington Post Magazine
Tributary
338(16)
Jessica Yen
From Fourth Genre
Tourist Trap
354(17)
Jianying Zha
From The New Yorker
Contributors' Notes371(5)
Notable Travel Writing of 2018376


A collection of the best travel writing published in 2019, selected by Alexandra Fuller.





JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine and Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits. He writes regularly for the Washington Post and the New York Times. Wilson has been the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing since its inception in 2000. Visit jasonwilson.com.

ALEXANDRA FULLER is the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat. She was born in England and grew up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia.





It's pretty easy to find online travel information, and there are a number of books that offer tips for travelers. Armchair travelers, however, and readers hoping for nuanced stories about exotic destinations, look forward to this annual travel-writing compilation, and its twentieth-anniversary edition does not disappoint. After starting with three selections set in global hot spots (Guantanamo, Kashmir, and Myanmar), there are articles about the only remaining finishing school in Switzerland and bachelorette parties in Nashville. The stories swing emotionally back and forth, some wry, some heartbreaking. Selections originally appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker to BuzzFeed to Airbnb Magazine, and writing styles run from casual accounts to poignant memoirs to in-depth reporting. There are bittersweet tales about trying to go back home juxtaposed against harrowing descriptions of navigating authoritarian regimes. Unique individuals, happenstance encounters, barely avoided catastrophes, and unexpected acts of kindness abound, resulting in one satisfying read after another. Whether consumed cover to cover or savored piece by piece, this newest collection is a worthy addition to travel literature. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.






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