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Title:
The best American travel writing 2010 / edited and with an introduction by Bill Buford ; Jason Wilson, series editor.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xxii, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Travel writing.
Travel--Excerpts.--Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.
Other Authors:
Buford, Bill.
Wilson, Jason.
Notes:
"A Mariner original"--T.p.
Contents:
Take nothing, leave nothing / Simon Winchester. Appointment in Istanbul / Henry Alford -- Looking for Judas / Tom Bissell -- Down & out in Fresno and San Francisco / Colby Buzzell -- The undead travel / Avi Davis -- The hadza / Michael Finkel -- Travels in Siberia / Ian Frazier -- Batman returns / Ted Genoways -- A house is a machine to live in / J. C. Hallman -- Strange stones / Peter Hessler -- The lovely stones / Christopher Hitchens -- Take in the state fair / Garrison Keillor -- Walking : an essay on writing / Peter LaSalle -- In defense of tourism / Peter Jon Lindberg -- Where donkeys deliver / Susan Orlean -- The ghost course / David Owen -- The ponzi state / George Packer -- Lost in the Amazon / Matthew Power -- Me, myself, and ribeye / Steven Rinella -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- The filthy, fecund secret of Emilia-Romagna / Patrick Symmes -- Take nothing, leave nothing / Simon Winchester.
Series:
Best American series
ISBN:
0547333358
9780547333359
OCLC:
(OCoLC)505420767
Locations:
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

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