A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident
 
It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
 
Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers...

Durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930 Joseph Roth viajó por toda Europa. Sus vagabundeos, que lo llevaron de un hotel a otro, le brindaron la incomparable oportunidad de observar y escribir sobre los lugares que visitaba. En los artículos que publicó, reunidos por primera vez en esta antología, Roth retrató un continente abocado al cambio y sin embargo aferrado a la tradición. Del compulsivo régimen de entrenamiento del ejército albano, las...

Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world. And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they might well be interchangeable. Where violence and poverty and moral transgression go unchecked, even unnoticed. A world of such wild, rocketing energy that, grasping...

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.

In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is "the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels." The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2015 demonstrate just that spirit, whether it is the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer retracing the footsteps of humanity as it spread from Africa throughout the...

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.

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...

"A guide to paying attention to the concrete, sensory details of experience and the process of getting them down on the page." -James Barilla, author of My Backyard Jungle Based on what accomplished nonfiction writer Sara Mansfield Taber learned in her many years of field notebook keeping, Chance Particulars is a unique and handy primer for writers who want to use their experiences to tell a lively, satisfying story. Often, writers try to turn...

Les deux auteurs tracent un portrait tout en nuance de l'Algérie contemporaine. Une fois encore, l'Algérie est face à son destin... Elle doit relever tellement de défis dans un avenir proche! Il lui faut réussir une transition politique délicate avec une génération de dirigeants civils et militaires qui refusent de s'effacer, repenser son économie écrasée par la rente des hydrocarbures qui s'est subitement asséchée et gérer une population...

Este libro es un striptease sentimental envuelto en papel de periódico y conservado a 20 grados bajo cero Se puede leer como una novela de formación, de amor, de muerte, de reflexión, de estrés, de periodismo, de literatura, de los escalofríos del scoop, en medio de un hilarante choque cultural que enreda al autor y al lector en las aspas del gigante ruso. Este libro refleja el resultado de 11 años de periodismo y de búsqueda incesante de...