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Title:

The best American travel writing 2008 / edited and with an introduction by Anthony Bourdain.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 295 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Travel writing.
Travel--Excerpts.--Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.

Other Authors:

Bourdain, Anthony.

Contents:

Where the roads diverged / Catherine Watson. Phnom Penh now / Ian Buruma -- Chasing ghosts / James Campbell -- The border / Peter Chilson -- Brighton Beach memoir / Simon Doonan -- African promise / J. Malcolm Garcia -- Hope and squalor at Chungking mansion / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- Dark passage / Peter Gwin -- Wheels of fortune / Peter Hessler -- Georgia in the time of Misha / Melik Kaylan -- Next stop, squalor / John Lancaster -- Mr. Tingler / Emily Maloney -- The river is a road / Bryan Mealer -- The train to Tibet / Pankaj Mishra -- The most expensive road trip in the world / Annie Nocenti -- Kabul nights / Kristin Ohlson -- Journey into night / David Sedaris -- To Russia for love / Gary Shteyngart -- Looking for mammon in the Muslim world / Seth Stevenson -- Have book, will travel / Thomas Swick -- The woman in the Kuffiya / Jeffrey Tayler -- While the king sleeps / Matthew Teague -- The golden man / Paul Theroux -- Three chopsticks / Calvin Trillin -- Where the roads diverged / Catherine Watson.

Series:

Best American series

ISBN:

0618858644 (pbk.)
9780618858644 (pbk.)
0618858636 (hc.)
9780618858637 (hc.)

Locations:

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)