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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
Price: $19.99
Pages: 352
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Imprint: Travelers' Tales
Publication Date:
19 September 2017
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9781609521233
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, TRAVEL / General
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.
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
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