The Best Travel Writing 2008: True
Stories from Around the World
Presents Accounts Of Encounters From Villages To Mountains, Cruisers To African
Cities
Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers Tales for award-winning
stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative
experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008
is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the worlds
best travel writing — much of it never before published — from Nobel Prize
winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective
and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have
actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to
misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to
encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café
filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far
— readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next
trips.

Personal Review: The Best Travel Writing 2008: True Stories
from Around the World
We're at our best, worst and most humorous when we travel. We can't help
it. We're painfully human and while we may start out with the best of or
reasonably good intentions, hopes, and semi-open minds we're bound to
wake up one morning to the mutterings of a foreign language or in an
interesting or even slightly bizarre location wondering just where exactly
we might have left our underwear and asking ourselves, why is the goat
winking?
Traveling broadens our minds but not necessarily our butts because we
usually end up walking or hiking more than we're used to and eating better
when we're away from fast food joints and snack foods. It expands our
intellects too even when we're not always ready for it, like say when we
meet that someone somewhere who is truly by far, more wise and
intelligent than any teacher or professor we ever ran across in high school
or college.
We listen and nod in appreciation and maybe smile then or later for the
accidental insight. Who knows? Maybe we'll grin too at the realization that
the only final exam we have in life is what we genuinely take away and
effectively use regardless of its source.
Travel also occasionally spanks our snotty misconceptions and gets us to
take a time-out to rethink our ethno-centric ways or perhaps to appreciate
what we have.
The Best Travel Writing 2008 reminds us why we need to travel more. It
does so with some great insight from some occasionally gifted writers.
Hey, not all the pieces sparkle but they all shine and let's be honest, what's
best for someone isn't always best for others. But you know what? You're
bound to find one or two in this collection that will define the term for you. A
good read and a good bargain.
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