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