The Best Travel Writing 2011
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“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 syndicated column, “World Travel Watch” (WorldTravelWatch.com). 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 their six children. He’s had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self (dickmanagement.com). His travels of late have taken him through China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; his most recent non-travel project is redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.