The best American travel writing 2004  
 Travel writing 2004 
edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer ; Jason Wilson, series editor. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  c2004. 
 - xxiv, 332 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Best American series .
<br/><br/>Romance / Roger Angell -- 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618341250 0618341269 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel--Periodicals--Excerpts.<br/>Travel writing.<br/>Travelers' writings, American.<br/>Short stories, American.