Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.
For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find thebest travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands ofstories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering allcorners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humourand absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners ofthe last ten years, stories that bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring,uplifting, and, very often, transformative.
Edited by:
James O'Reilly,
Larry Habegger,
Sean O'Reilly
Imprint: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 133mm,
Spine: 12mm
ISBN: 9781609521233
ISBN 10: 1609521234
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 January 2018
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
