The best American travel writing 2005
Travel writing 2005
edited and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid ; Jason Wilson, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2005.
- ixx, 374 p. ; 22 cm.
- Best American series .
Vocabulary for my senses / Mine of stones / War wounds / My Florida / In the land of the surfing hippos / Route 3 / Really big lunch / By the big sea water / Kindergarten / Say no more /Jack Hitt -- Vertigo girls do the East Tonto Trail / Impossible place to be / My Thai girlfriends / Leap year / If it doesn't kill you first / Maps and dreaming / Romancing the abyss / Adrift / Tight-assed river / Into the land of bin Laden / West Highland peace trek / Vision seekers / Trying really hard to like India / They came out like ants! / Welcome to nowhere / Timothy Bascom -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Tom Bissell -- William E. Blundell -- J. Michael Fay -- Ian Frazier -- Jim Harrison -- William Least Heat-Moon -- Peter Hessler -- Pam Houston - - Ben Ryder Howe -- Tom Ireland -- Mark Jenkins - - Murad Kalam -- Charles Martin Kearney -- Thomas Keneally -- Bucky McMahon -- John McPhee -- Robert Young Pelton -- David Quammen -- Kira Salak -- Seth Stevenson -- William T. Vollmann -- Simon Winchester.
0618369511 (pbk.)
Travel--Periodicals--Excerpts.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.
Vocabulary for my senses / Mine of stones / War wounds / My Florida / In the land of the surfing hippos / Route 3 / Really big lunch / By the big sea water / Kindergarten / Say no more /Jack Hitt -- Vertigo girls do the East Tonto Trail / Impossible place to be / My Thai girlfriends / Leap year / If it doesn't kill you first / Maps and dreaming / Romancing the abyss / Adrift / Tight-assed river / Into the land of bin Laden / West Highland peace trek / Vision seekers / Trying really hard to like India / They came out like ants! / Welcome to nowhere / Timothy Bascom -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Tom Bissell -- William E. Blundell -- J. Michael Fay -- Ian Frazier -- Jim Harrison -- William Least Heat-Moon -- Peter Hessler -- Pam Houston - - Ben Ryder Howe -- Tom Ireland -- Mark Jenkins - - Murad Kalam -- Charles Martin Kearney -- Thomas Keneally -- Bucky McMahon -- John McPhee -- Robert Young Pelton -- David Quammen -- Kira Salak -- Seth Stevenson -- William T. Vollmann -- Simon Winchester.
0618369511 (pbk.)
Travel--Periodicals--Excerpts.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.