The Iyer, Pico. Wilson, Jason. text mau Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. c2004 2004 monographic eng

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xxiv, 332 p. ; 22 cm. 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. edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer ; Jason Wilson, series editor. Travel Periodicals Excerpts Travel writing Travelers' writings, American Short stories, American 0618341250 0618341269 (pbk.) GZD 000830 20190501185602.0 56719291