The Soul of a Great Traveler -

The Soul of a Great Traveler

10 Years of Solas Award-Winning Travel Stories
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2018
Travelers' Tales, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-60952-158-5 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.
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

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Sebastopol
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Reisen Reiseführer
Reisen Sport- / Aktivreisen Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
ISBN-10 1-60952-158-7 / 1609521587
ISBN-13 978-1-60952-158-5 / 9781609521585
Zustand Neuware
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