Just Out: Travelers’ Tales’ ‘The Best Travel Writing 2007’

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  02.22.07 | 3:13 PM ET

imageTravelers’ Tales’ The Best Travel Writing 2007: True Stories from Around the World hits bookstores this week. It’s the fourth volume in the series, which was launched in 2004. This year editors included 29 stories, including pieces by Rory Stewart, Paul Theroux and Karin Muller. Smackdown in Tijuana, my story about enjoying some body-slamming lucha libre Mexican wrestling last summer, is also included, I’m pleased to note.

Lonely Planet’s Tony Wheeler wrote the introduction.

Among the highlights from it:

It’s by traveling that we meet people and come face to face with how they see the world or, even better, start to see how the world looks from their viewpoint and begin to understand why they think the way they do. We’re much less likely to discover that alternative perspective by sitting at home and watching the news on TV.

So many of the tales in this collection are reminders of this other essential truth: that it’s at ground level, in the streets, where we have the best hope of making that connection.

Related on World Hum:
* Now Available: ‘The Best American Travel Writing 2006’
* ‘Best American Travel Writing 2005’ vs. ‘Best Travel Writing 2005’

Tags: Literary Travel


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