by Bill Buford, Ian Jack · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862071100
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«The Granta Book of Travel» is the anthology of travel writing edited by Bill Buford and Ian Jack, published by Granta Books in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Collects travel pieces from the first 35 issues of Granta magazine, featuring writers such as Bill Bryson, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux and Graham Swift. Texts combining memoir, reportage and narrative, ranging across diverse countries and cultures, with essays like Bruce Chatwin's or «Fat Girls in Des Moines» by Bryson.
The 1998 edition includes an introduction by Ian Jack, who appears as editor of the volume alongside Bill Buford.
For readers of travel literature and narrative non-fiction, especially those who follow Granta magazine or the work of authors like Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux.
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
