The Best American Travel Writing 2016Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, I wasnt 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 certainthey come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film

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