Full Description
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
Contents
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
