The Best American Travel Writing 2016

<em>Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? </em>Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to <em>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</em> and though he admits I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons one thing is for certain--they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled attending a surreal film festival in North Korea or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling providing an answer: <em>This is why I like to travel</em>. <p/><em>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</em> includes<em> </em>Michael Chabon Alice Gregory Paul Theroux Dave Eggers Helen Macdonald Sara Corbett Stephanie Pearson Thomas Chatterton Williams Pico Iyer <em>and others</em> <p/>BILL BRYSON guest editor is the best-selling author of <em>A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything;</em> <em>One Summer: America 1927;</em> <em>The Road to Little Dribbling</em><em>;</em> and numerous other books. <p/>JASON WILSON series editor is the author of <em>Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare the Obscure and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall;</em> and the forthcoming <em>Why Wine Matters.</em> He has written for the <em>Washington Post Magazine The New Yorker</em> the <em>New York Times</em> and many other publications and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.