The best American travel writing 2009 / edited and with an introduction by Simon Winchester ; Jason Wilson, series editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winchester, Simon.

Wilson, Jason (Writer on food and travel)

Series:

Best American series

The best American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writing.

Travel--Periodicals--Excerpts.

Travel.

Travelers' writings, American.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 351 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2009.

Summary:

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

Contents:

Generals in their labyrinth / Patrick Symmes

Mind dismembered / Frank Bures

Last wild river / Bronwen Dickey

Intimacy / André Aciman

Who is America / Chuck Klosterman

Pervert's grand tour / Tony Perrottet

Dip in the cold / Lynne Cox

Mississippi drift / Matthew Power

Mecca of the mouse / Seth Stevenson

Deeds / Tom Sleigh

Hotels Rwanda / Jay Kirk

Dragon season / Kiran Desai

Tigerland / Caroline Alexander

Lost in the Sahel / Paul Salopek

My servant / Eric Weiner

Bolivia's wrestlers / Alma Guillermoprieto

End of the end of the revolution / Roger Cohen

By meat alone / Calvin Trillin

Terminal beauty / Karrie Jacobs

Tale of two crossings / Mark Schatzker

Game over, perseverance, all I want is everything / Dimiter Kenarov

Cabin of my dreams / Patrick Symmes

Tracking down James Bond / Jay Cowan

Ecotouring in Honduras / Elisabeth Eaves

You do not represent the government of the United States of America / Daniel Alarcón.

Notes:

"A Mariner original."

ISBN:

9780618858668

0618858660

OCLC:

313657994