Edward Stanford Travel Writing 2024

Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Includes Stanford Travel Book of the Year and Fiction with a Sense of Place.

Updated September 19, 2024
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A stranger in your own city : travels in the Middle East's long war
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
Paper Book
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq...Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal...
The covenant of water
Verghese, Abraham
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in...
Dust child
Nguy?n, Phan Qu? Mai
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the...
The book of fire
Lefteri, Christy
Paper Book
"A tender depiction of loss and healing that raises questions about guilt and blame in the age of climate change."--People "As with The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Lefteri transports the reader to a once lush and now destroyed world."--Kristin Hannah, #1 New...
Roman stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies returns with her first short story collection since the publication of her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth--a major literary event and a tour de force Nine mesmerizing...
Wounded Tigris : a river journey through the cradle of civilisation
McCarron, Leon
Paper Book
A fascinating journey down the Tigris River--the lifeblood of human civilization--in search of history and hope. Starting at the source of this storied river, where ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrian kings had their images carved into stone, explorer Leon McCarron and his small...

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