The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.
Introduction by Rolf Potts
In The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will:
Piece together the...

Wisdom from the World's Great Travelers

Freelance writer and Travelers' Tales Executive Editor Larry Habegger spent five and a half years compiling quotations from the world's great travelers for The Quotable Traveler, his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle. All 291 of these engaging reflections are collected here and are guaranteed to carry you to faraway lands. With these quotes you will travel with:

• Lao Tzu in China
• Napoleon in Egypt
• Mark Twain in France
• Freya Stark in Iraq
• Alexandra David-Neel...