The best American travel writing 2004
By: edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer ; Jason Wilson, series editor.
Contributors: Iyer, Pico.; Wilson, Jason.
Series: Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts; Travel writing; Travelers' writings, American; Short stories, American
Genres: Excerpts.
Other titles: Travel writing 2004
Table of contents: title: Romance /  Roger Angell; title: Test day /  Frank Bures; title: Monuments to our better nature /  Michael Byers; title: The accidental explorer's guide to Patagonia /  Tim Cahill; title: The screenwriter's vacation /  Richie Chevat; title: Canadian gothic /  Douglas Anthony Cooper; title: History lesson /  Joan Didion; title: Under the sheltering sky /  Bill Donahue; title: Sandbags in the archipelago /  Heather Eliot; title: Kashmiri extremism /  Kevin Fedarko; title: Segways in Paris /  Tad Friend; title: The people on the bus /  Adam Gopnik; title: Innocents abroad? /  Michael Gorra; title: Facing famine /  Tom Haines; title: Chasing the wall /  Peter Hessler; title: The ghost road /  Mark Jenkins; title: The wrong side of the Cape /  Rian Malan; title: Small world /  Bill McKibben; title: A fleet of one /  John McPhee; title: Gangsta war /  George Packer; title: The road to Herat /  Elizabeth Rubin; title: Places of darkness /  Kira Salak; title: Shattered Sudan /  Paul Salopek; title: Faces in a crowd /  Thomas Swick; title: Don't fence me in /  Patrick Symmes; title: The Kabul express /  Patrick Symmes; title: Notable travel writing of 2003 /; title: selected by  Jason Wilson.