The Best American Travel Writing 2016

**“The stories are all beautifully written.” — *USA Today*** A far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2015, collected by guest editor best-selling author Bill Bryson. *The Best American Travel Writing* consistently includes a wide variety of pieces, illuminating the wonder, humor, fear, and exhilaration that greets all of us when we embark on a journey to a new place. Each volume promises to “gratify both armchair travelers and the most seasoned and fearless thrill-seekers . . . [with] refreshingly original stories, alternately humorous, nostalgic, exhilarating and horrifying” ( *Kirkus Reviews* ). When readers look for top-notch travel writing, they know there is simply no other option. White guy in a djellaba / Michael Chabon — How can we find more people like you? / Sara Corbett — The actual Hollister / Dave Eggers — Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich — Off Diamond Head / William Finnegan — Climb every mountain / Alice Gregory — The foreign spell / Pico Iyer — The Marlboro men of Chernivtsi / Andrew W. Jones — What’s left behind / Kea Krause — Hiding from animals / Helen MacDonald — About face / Patricia Marx — A cave with a view / D.T. Max — Born to travel / Freda Moon — The reddest carpet / Mitch Moxley — Growing old with the Inuit / Justin Nobel — The green heaven / Stephanie Pearson — Darwin’s forgotten world — Tony Perrottet — Little things that kill you / Steven Rinella — Swiss dream / David Rowell — Peak Havana / Patrick Symmes — Fyodor’s guide / Jeffery Tayler — Return of the mockingbird / Paul Theroux — Invisible and insidious / William T. Vollman — In another country / Thomas Chatterton Williams