"The Best Travel Writing 2006" is the third volume in the annual best "Travelers' Tales" series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing-from Nobel Prize winners to complete unknowns. These stories cover the globe, from sailing with pirates in the Java Sea to discovering the secret of manhood in the Australian bush and wrestling with sex addiction in Thailand. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, absolute hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

Introduction by: Herbert Gold