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Title:

The best American travel writing 2004 / edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer ; Jason Wilson, series editor.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xxiv, 332 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Iyer, Pico.
Wilson, Jason.

Contents:

Notable travel writing of 2003 / Jason Wilson. Test day / Frank Bures-- Monuments to our better nature / Michael Byers -- The accidental explorer's guide to Patagonia / Tim Cahill -- The screenwriter's vacation / Richie Chevat -- Canadian gothic / Douglas Anthony Cooper -- History lesson / Joan Didion -- Under the sheltering sky / Bill Donahue -- Sandbags in the archipelago / Heather Eliot -- Kashmiri extremism / Kevin Fedarko -- Segways in Paris / Tad Friend -- The people on the bus / Adam Gopnik -- Innocents abroad? / Michael Gorra -- Facing famine / Tom Haines -- Chasing the wall / Peter Hessler -- The ghost road / Mark Jenkins -- The wrong side of the Cape / Rian Malan -- Small world / Bill McKibben -- A fleet of one / John McPhee -- Gangsta war / George Packer -- The road to Herat / Elizabeth Rubin -- Places of darkness / Kira Salak -- Shattered Sudan / Paul Salopek -- Faces in a crowd / Thomas Swick -- Don't fence me in / Patrick Symmes -- The Kabul express / Patrick Symmes -- Notable travel writing of 2003 / selected by Jason Wilson.

Series:

Best American series

ISBN:

9780618341269 (pbk.)
0618341269 (pbk.)
9780618341252
0618341250

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)