" The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception." - New York Times Book Review Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain-they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing , curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they "open a window onto the strange, seedy and beautiful world, offering readers glimpses into places that many will never see or experience except through the eyes and words of these writers" ( Kirkus Reviews). This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre's gold standard.