This book is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Travel Writing 2011: readers will sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana; a traveler conducts his own detente in Russian baths; readers encounter the light of a stranger in Burma; an archaeologist digs up her own past in Greece; and, readers comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more.