The Best Travel Writing 2011 - James O'Reilly [137]
“The Memory Bird” by Carolyn Kraus first appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall 2009. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2009 by Carolyn Kraus.
“Camel College” by Matthew Crompton published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Matthew Crompton.
“Lanterns of Fear” by Gary Buslik published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Gary Buslik.
“All in the Same House” by Bill Fink published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Bill Fink.
“Femme in the Vosges” by Mieke Eerkens published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Mieke Eerkens.
“Beneath the Rim” by Michael Shapiro published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Michael Shapiro.
“It’s the Sauce” by Mary Jo McConahay published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Mary Jo McConahay.
“Jimmy the Natural” by Martin Dillon published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Martin Dillon.
“Flyover Country” by Johnna Kaplan published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Johnna Kaplan.
“Educating the Body” first appeared in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, Winter/Spring 2009. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2009 by Katherine Jamieson.
“Sun Valley with Dad” by Colette O’Connor published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Colette O’Connor.
“Alone in India—But Not for Long” by Kate Crawford published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Kate Crawford.
“Winged Victory” by Erin Byrne first appeared on World Hum in August 2010. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Erin Byrne
“Protected” by Peter Wortsman first appeared in Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, Issue 7. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Peter Wortsman.
“The Chilean Cliff Carver” by Lisa Alpine is excerpted from Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Alpine.
“Alone, Illegal, and Broke Down” by Carla King published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Carla King.
“Wilding Horses” by Mary Caperton Morton was excerpted from “Still Wild” in the Writers On the Range column for High Country News, June 2009. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2009.
“In the Fields of My Lai” by Joel Carillet published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Joel Carillet.
“The Year We Bought Our Hitchhiker” by Deborah Taffa published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Deborah Taffa.
“Death Road” by Sabine Bergmann published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Sabine Bergmann.
“Shiva and Sadhus at Pashupati Temple” by Tim Ward published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Tim Ward.
“Into the Underworld” by Amanda Summer Slavin published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Amanda Summer Slavin.
“Eternity” by Cameron McPherson Smith published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2011 by Cameron McPherson Smith.
About the Editors
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 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 almost 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 co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O’Reilly, and since 1985 has written a