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The second volume in the annual series of travel writing features 28 stories that take the reader from a recreation of Muhammad Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" to the Aegean Sea in search of the long shadow of Odysseus.

Celebrating the travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to unknowns, these stories cover the globe, from sailing with pirates in the Java Sea to discovering the secret of manhood in the Australian bush and wrestling with sex addiction in Thailand. The perspectives are global, and themes encompass adventure, spiritual growth and many more.

Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - much of it never before published - from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far - readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next trips.

Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers'' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world''s best travel writing — much of it never before published — from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far — readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next trips.

Features themes that encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. This book takes readers on a harrowing raft ride off the coast of Panama, on a whirlwind tour from Florence to Santorini, into the wilds of Patagonia, and to a colourful village in Ghana.

Offers a collection of the best travel writing. This title enables the readers to: explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon; discover the meaning of life talking to an Irish carpenter on an plane; take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour; and, delve deep into the sacred Japanese pilgrimage route.

Introduction by Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There and Vagabonding

Introduction by Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There and Vagabonding

An annual collection of the best travel writing of the year from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. It presents points of view and perspectives that are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures.

The stories in this collection span the globe, from battling snakes in Costa Rica to probing personal reactions to India's caste system, navigating the 'oldest tourist trap in the world' in Egypt, and learning to cook octopus in Mexico.