The Best American Travel Writing AUTH-377106 Maggie Jackson is an award-winning

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist who writes the popular "Balancing Acts" column in the Boston Globe

excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks

and was also the founding editor of the magazine South Today

Author Sue Macy spent eleven years tracking down the women of the AAGPBL

make better decisions and achieve uplifting results

The Best American Travel Writing AUTH-377106 Maggie Jackson is an award-winningIn his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that "spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocation and the strange, unholy need to record the experience." With this in mind, Bourdain and series editor Jason