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Title:

The best American travel writing 2000 / edited and with introduction by Bill Bryson ; series editor, Jason Wilson.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

307 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Travel--Excerpts.--Excerpts.
Travel writing, American.
United States--Description and travel.

Other Authors:

Bryson, Bill.

Notes:

Reprinted from various periodicals.

Contents:

Marseille's moment / Amy Wilentz. Lions and tigers and bears / Bill Buford -- This teeming ark / Tim Cahill -- The toughest trucker in the world / Tom Clynes -- Hitchhiker's Cuba / Dave Eggers -- Nantucket on my mind / David Halberstam -- The Nile at mile one / Mark Hertsgaard -- Spies in the house of faith / Isabel Hilton -- The first drink of the day / Clive Irving -- Lard is good for you / Alden Jones -- The truck / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- Confessions of a cheese smuggler / David Lansing -- Inside the hidden kingdom / Jessica Maxwell -- Weird karma / P.J. O'Rourke -- Zoned on Zanzibar / Tony Perrottet -- Storming the beach / Rolf Potts -- The last safari / Mark Ross -- Winter rules / Steve Rushin -- From the wonderful people who brought you the killing fields / Patrick Symmes -- China's wild west / Jeffrey Tayler -- Exiled beyond kilometer 101 / Jeffrey Tayler -- The two faces of tourism / Jonathan Tourtellot -- The very short history of Nunavut / William T. Vollmann -- One man and his donkey / David Wallis -- Marseille's moment / Amy Wilentz.

Summary:

The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published in 1999, culled from more than three hundred magazines, newspapers, and Web sites.

Series:

The Best American series

ISBN:

9780618074662
061807466X
0618074678 (pbk.)
9780618074679

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45105489

LCCN:

00213821

Locations:

ACPD686 -- Carnegie-Evans Public Library (Albia)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

BLPC611 -- Earlham Public Library (Earlham)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

DKPC353 -- Sheffield Public Library (Sheffield)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)