Best American Travel Writing 2005

Name: Best American Travel Writing 2005
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ISBN: 9780618369522

ISBN-10: 061836952X

ISBN-13: 9780618369522

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jason Wilson, Jamaica Kincaid, Jason Wilson

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The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2005 includes William Least-Heat Moon - Ian Frazier - John McPhee - William T. Vollmann - Simon Winchester - Tom Bissell - Madison Smartt Bell - Timothy Bascom - Pam Houston - and others Jamaica Kincaid, guest editor, is the author of…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jason Wilson is emeritus professor of Latin American literature at the University College London. He is the author of Octavio Paz: A Study of His Poetics, An A-Z of Modern Latin American Literature in English Translation, and Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion.



Foreword



Introduction



A Vocabulary for My Senses: from The Missouri Review



Mine of Stones: from Harper's Magazine



War Wounds: from Harper's Magazine



My Florida: from The American Scholar



In the Land of the Surfing Hippos: from National Geographic



Route 3: from The New Yorker



A Really Big Lunch: from The New Yorker



By the Big Sea Water: from Gourmet



Kindergarten: from The New Yorker



Say No More: from the New York Times Magazine



The Vertigo Girls Do the East Tonto Trail: from National Geographic Adventure



An Impossible Place to Be: from Outside



My Thai Girlfriends: from The Missouri Review



Leap Year: from Outside



If It Doesn't Kill You First: from Outside



Maps and Dreaming: from The Missouri Review



Romancing the Abyss: from Conde Nast Traveler



Adrift: from Esquire



Tight-Assed River: from The New Yorker



Into the Land of bin Laden: from National Geographic Adventure



West Highland Peace Trek: from National Geographic Adventure



The Vision Seekers: from The Sophisticated Traveler



Trying Really Hard to Like India: from Slate.com



They Came Out Like Ants!: from Harper's Magazine



Welcome to Nowhere: from National Geographic Adventure



Contributors' Notes