The Best American Travel Writing 2003
New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
Format: Book
Description: xxii, 358 pages ; 22 cm.
More and more readers are discovering the pleasure of armchair travel through the hugely successful Best American Travel Writing, now in its fourth adventurous year. Journey through the 2003 volume from Route 66 to the Arctic; go deep into Poland's Tatra Mountains and through the wildest jungle in Congo. Selections this year are from equally far-flung sources, including Outside, Food & Wine, National Geographic Adventure, Potpourri, and The New Yorker.
Series: Best American. Travel writing.
Contents:
Pope on a rope tow / Lisa Anne Auerbach -- The happiest man in Cuba / Rebecca Barry -- A cup of Cuban coffee / Stephen Benz -- Eternal Winter / Tom Bissell -- Stranger in the Dunes / Graham Brink -- The forest primeval / Peter Canby -- Over there / Scott Carrier -- The road from Abalak / Peter Chilson -- They shoot poachers, don't they? / Tom Clynes -- The despair of Art Deco / Geoff Dyer -- The respect of the men / Jack Handy -- The ballad of Route 66 / Christopher Hitchens -- POwer trip / Emily Maloney -- Winter cruises under ten dollars / Bruce McCall -- What happened to Uncle Shmiel? -- Lost in the Arctic / Lawrence Milman -- Gettin' Jiggy / Steven Rinella -- Mungo made me do it / Kira Salak -- The devil and Ambrose Bierce / Jacob Silverstein -- My dinner in Kabul / Andrew Solomon -- I am fashion / Michael Specter -- Just one word: plastic / Hank Stuever -- Blood wood / Patrick Symmes -- Where the ghost bird sings / William T. Vollmann.
ISBN:
0618118810
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TRAVEL Writing Bes | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |