TY - BOOK AU - Iyer,Pico AU - Wilson,Jason TI - The best American travel writing 2004 SN - 0618341250 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - Travel KW - Periodicals KW - Excerpts KW - Travel writing KW - Travelers' writings, American KW - Short stories, American N1 - 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 ER -