The best American travel writing.
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Table of Contents
2019: Overlooking Guantanamo / Benz, Stephen --
The Great Divide / Crowell, Maddy --
Uncomfortable Silences: a walk in Myanmar / Fettling, David --
Finished / Gregory, Alice --
How the Chile Pepper took over the world / Gross, Matt --
I walked from Selma to Montgomery / Haile, Rahawa --
Morsi the Cat / Hessler, Peter --
A visit to Chernobyl:Travel in the Postapocalypse / Hewitt, Cameron --
Paper Tiger / Jarvis, Brooke --
Keepers of the Jungle / Knafo, Saki --
Mother Tongue / Loredo, Lucas --
Is this the most crowded island in the world? (and why that question matters) / MacGregor, Alex --
Taming the Lionfish / MacGregor, Jeff --
If these walls could talk / Markham, Lauren --
The floating world / Mauk, Ben --
Irmageddon / O'Neil, Devon --
Water and the wall / Paumgarten, Nick --
How Nashville became one big bachelorette party / Petersen, Anne Helen --
These brazilians traveled 19 hours on a riverboat to vote. I went with them / Sims, Shannon --
Cused fields / Sneider, Noah --
The end of the line / Vollmann, William T. --
"The Greatest" / Wilson, Jason --
Tributary / Yen, Jessica --
Tourist Trap / Zha, Jianying.
2018: Goodbye, my Brother / Elliot Ackerman --
Hope and home / Rabih Alameddine --
Peak America / Sam Anderson --
Why should a melon cost as much as a car? / Bianca Bosker --
Ghost of Capablanca / Brin-Jonathan Butler --
My mother and I went halfway around the world to find each other / Jennifer Hope Choi --
Signs and wonders / J. D. Daniels --
Traveling while black / Camille Dungy --
Foxes of Prince Edward Island / Matthew Ferrence --
What ever happened to the Russian Revolution? / Ian Frazier --
We go it alone / Rahawa Haile --
Digital republic / Nathan Heller --
Some kind of calling / Pam Houston --
Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde --
Out of sight / Ryan Knighton --
Over the river / Richard Manning --
Outside the Manson Pinkberry / Rachel Monroe --
Righteous gentile / Eileen Pollack --
Looking for right and wrong in the Philippines / Albert Samaha --
Thinking outside the bots / Gary Shteyngart --
In the home of the bear / Christopher Solomon --
Notes from a last man / Barrett Swanson --
Counter revolution / Anya von Bremzen --
Vacances / John von Sothen.
2017: Cover story / Elif Batuman --
My holy land vacation / Tom Bissell --
Chiefing in Cherokee / Stephanie Elizondo Griest --
Cliffhanger / Peter Frick-Wright --
The ones who left / Jackie Hedeman --
The big leap / Leslie Jamison --
Refugees hear a foreign word: Welcome / Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn --
Finding the forgotten / Randall Kenan --
Waiting on a whale at the end of the world / Saki Knafo --
Plum crazy / Gwendolyn Knapp --
Land of the lost / David Kushner --
On the road / Gideon Lewis-Kraus --
The secrets of the wood wide web / Robert McFarlane --
Volunteering for the harvest / Ann Mah --
The away team / Alexis Okeowo --
A palpable history / Tim Parks --
Eva, she kill her one daughter / Shelley Puhak --
One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers --
Citizen Khan / Kathryn Schulz --
No amount of traffic or instagrammers or drunks can take the magic ut of (semi-) wilderness / Wells tower --
My father's house / Reggie Ugwu --
The currency of moons / Kim Wyatt.
2016: White guy in a djellaba / Michael Chabon --
How can we find more people like you? / Sara Corbett --
The actual Hollister / Dave Eggers --
Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich --
Off Diamond Head / William Finnegan --
Climb every mountain / Alice Gregory --
The foreign spell / Pico Iyer --
The Marlboro men of Chernivtsi / Andrew W. Jones --
What's left behind / Kea Krause --
Hiding from animals / Helen MacDonald --
About face / Patricia Marx --
A cave with a view / D.T. Max --
Born to travel / Freda Moon --
The reddest carpet / Mitch Moxley --
Growing old with the Inuit / Justin Nobel --
The green heaven / Stephanie Pearson --
Darwin's forgotten world / Tony Perrottet --
Little things that kill you / Steven Rinella --
Swiss dream / David Rowell --
Peak Havana / Patrick Symmes --
Fyodor's guide / Jeffery Tayler --
Return of the mockingbird / Paul Theroux --
Invisible and insidious / William T. Vollman --
In another country / Thomas Chatterton Williams.
2014: Poisoned land / Elif Batuman --
Amigos / Julie Cookie --
Life during wartime / Janine Di Giovanni --
American the marvelous / A.A. Gill --
Christmas in Thessaloniki / Arnon Grunberg --
Fifty shades of greyhounds / Harrison Scott Key --
Au train de vie: that voice you hear when traveling / Peter LaSalle --
460 days / Amanda Lindhout with Sara Corbett --
Clear-eyed in Calcutta / Andrew McCarthy --
This must be the place / Michael Paterniti --
Love in the time of coca / Stephanie Pearson --
Birthplace of the American vacation / Tony Perrottet --
Excuse us while we kiss the sky / Matthew Power --
Dream acres / Steven Rinella --
Now we are five / David Sedaris --
My New York: a romance in eight parts / Peter Selgin --
Sun king / Bob Shacochis --
The last of Eden / Alex Shoumatoff --
Maximum Bombay / Gary Shteyngart --
A moving experience / Thomas Swick --
Born on the 9th of July / Peter Symmes --
In the abode of the gods / Jeffrey Tayler --
Loving Las Vegas / Colson Whitehead --
Open water / Sean Wilsey.
2013: Foreword / Jason Wilson --
Introduction / Elizabeth Gilbert --
A prison, a paradise from New York times magazine / John Jeremiah Sullivan --
Bull passes through from Morning news / Kevin Chroust --
Way I've come from Legal studies forum / Judy Copeland --
Blot out from Creative nonfiction / Colleen Kinder --
Year I didn't from Gulf Coast / Daniel Tyx --
Tea and kidnapping from Atlantic / Sarah A. Topol --
Paid piper from T magazine / Grant Stoddard --
Dentists without borders from New Yorker / David Sedaris --
Confessions of a packing minimalist from Travel + Leisure / Lynn Yaeger --
Summerland from Travel + Leisure / Peter Jon Lindberg --
Wild dogs of Istanbul from Smart set / Bernd Brunner --
Bombing Sarajevo from Outside / Dimiter Kenarov --
Vietnam's bowl of secrets from Afar / David Farley --
Babu on the bad road from Virginia quarterly review / Jesse Dukes --
Pippiest place on earth from New York times magazine / Sam Anderson --
Dreaming of El Dorado from Virginia quarterly review / Marie Arana --
Caliph of the tricksters from Harper's magazine / Christopher de Ballaigue --
A farewell to yarns from Outside / Ian Frazier --
Pirate City from Paris review / Rich Cohen --
Contributors' notes --
Notable travel writing of 2012.
2012: How to explore like a real Victorian adventurer from The believer / Monte Reel --
Telltale scribes of Timbuktu from National geographic / Peter Gwin --
Chernobyl, my primeval, teeming, irradiated Eden from Outside / Henry Shukman --
Garbage city from VQR / Elliott D. Woods --
My days with the anti-Mafia from The Missouri revew / Thomas Swick --
City of wals from The American scholar / Robin Kirk --
Now ye know who the bosses are here now from McSweeney's / J. Malcolm Garcia --
Wicked coast from The Atlantic / Paul Theroux --
Letter from Paris from The Houston review / Michael Gorra --
Reckoning from The New York times magazine / Kenan Trebincevic --
Tijuana Sports Hall of Fame from Grantland / Bryan Curtis --
Holy city of the Wichitas from Ecotone / Kimberly Meyer --
Momento mori from The believer / Dimiter Kenarov --
Maximum India from Cond©♭ nast traveler / Pico Iyer --
Keeping watch from Harper's magazine / Lynn Freed --
Walking the border from Esquire / Luke Dittrich --
Amundsen schlepped here from Outside ; Conquering an infinite cave from National geographic by Mark Jenkins --
Railroad semantics from Railroad semantics / Aaron Dactyl.
2011: My Monet moment / Andre Aciman --
Southern culture on the skids / Ben Austen --
Coconut salesman / David Baez --
Venance LaFrance is not dead / Mischa Berlinski --
My year at sea / Christopher Buckley --
A girls' guide to Saudi Arabia / Maureen Dowd --
Last stand of free town / Porter Fox --
Stuck / Keith Gessen --
Famous / Tom Ireland --
Vanishing point / Verlyn Klinkenborg --
Reservations / Ariel Levy --
Aligning the internal compass / Jessica McCaughey --
Last Inuit of Quebec / Justin Nobel --
Twilight of the vampires / Tea Obreht --
A year of birds / Annie Proulx --
Moscow on the med / Gary Shteyngart --
A head for the Emir / William T. Vollmann --
Miami party boom / Emily Witt.
2010: Introduction / Bill Buford --
Appointment in Istanbul / Henry Alford --
Looking for Judas / Tom Bissell --
Down & out in Fresno and San Francisco / Colby Buzzell --
The undead travel / Avi Davis --
The hadza / Michael Finkel --
Travels in Siberia / Ian Frazier --
Batman returns / Ted Genoways --
A house is a machine to live in / J. C. Hallman --
Strange stones / Peter Hessler --
The lovely stones / Christopher Hitchens --
Take in the state fair / Garrison Keillor --
Walking : an essay on writing / Peter LaSalle --
In defense of tourism / Peter Jon Lindberg --
Where donkeys deliver / Susan Orlean --
The ghost course / David Owen --
The ponzi state / George Packer --
Lost in the Amazon / Matthew Power --
Me, myself, and ribeye / Steven Rinella --
Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris --
The filthy, fecund secret of Emilia-Romagna / Patrick Symmes --
Take nothing, leave nothing / Simon Winchester.
2007: A brief and awkward tour of the end of the Earth / Jason Anthony --
Lost in space / Rick Bass --
High in hell / Kevin Fedarko --
A kielbasa too far / Ian Frazier --
Lost in America / Steve Friedman --
Long day's journey into dinner / Elizabeth Gilbert --
Arieh / Reesa Grushka --
The boys of Saigon / David Halberstam --
Hutong Karma / Peter Hessler --
Miles from nowhere / Edward Hoagland --
Birth of a nation? / Ian Parker --
The long way home / Nando Parrado --
Do not disturb / Ann Patchett --
The magic mountain / Matthew Power --
Streets of sorrow / David Rakoff --
The incredible Buddha boy / George Saunders --
Brazil's untamed heart / Gary Shteyngart --
Circle of fire / Andrew Solomon --
The lonely planet guide to my apartment / Jonathan Stern --
Fantasy Island / Cynthia Zarin.
2006: A shared plate / Chitrita Banerji
The selling of the last savage / Michael Behar
How to sail across the Atlantic / Paul Bennett
After the fall / Tom Bissell and Morgan Meis
The discreet charm of the Zurich Bourgeoisie
Ain't it just grand? / Kevin Fedarko
The price of paradise / Caitlin Flanagan
Where they love Americans ... for a living / Sean Flynn
Out of Ohio / Ian Frazier
The parachute artist / Tad friend
Our lady of Lawson / Pico Iyer
A short walk in the Wakhan Corridor / Mark Jenkins
Naked Ambition / Heidi Julavits
Passing through / Yiyun Li
The mother load / P.J. O'Rourke
XXXXL / Michael Paterniti
The joy of steam / Tony Perrottet
Tantric sex for dilettantes / Rolf Potts
Rediscovering Libya / Kira Salak
The new mecca / George Saunders
Turbulence / David Sedaris
Airborne / Sally Shivnan
A St. Petersburg Christmas / Gary Shteyngart
Let's ski Korea / Christopher Solomon
A peaceful angle / Patrick Symmes
Speaking of soup / Calvin Trillin.
2005: Vocabulary for my senses / Timothy Bascom --
Mine of stones / Madison Smartt Bell --
War wounds / Tom Bissell --
My Florida / William E. Blundell --
In the land of the surfing hippos / J. Michael Fay --
Route 3 / Ian Frazier --
Really big lunch / Jim Harrison --
By the big sea water / William Least Heat-Moon --
Kindergarten / Peter Hessler --
Say no more /Jack Hitt --
Vertigo girls do the East Tonto Trail / Pam Houston --
Impossible place to be / Ben Ryder Howe --
My Thai girlfriends / Tom Ireland --
Leap year / Mark Jenkins --
If it doesn't kill you first / Murad Kalam --
Maps and dreaming / Charles Martin Kearney --
Romancing the abyss / Thomas Keneally --
Adrift / Bucky McMahon --
Tight-assed river / John McPhee --
Into the land of bin Laden / Robert Young Pelton --
West Highland peace trek / David Quammen --
Vision seekers / Kira Salak --
Trying really hard to like India / Seth Stevenson --
They came out like ants! / William T. Vollmann --
Welcome to nowhere / Simon Winchester.
2004: 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.
2002: Roman hours / Andre Aciman --
Below Canal Street / Scott Anderson --
Sovereigns from the sky / Stephen Bodio --
Throw junior from the car / William Booth --
Postcards from the fair / Kevin Kanty --
An rio runs through it / Rod Davis --
Thirteen ways of looking at a void / Michael Finkel --
Forty years in Acapulco / Devin Friedman --
Beyond the end of the road / Laurence Gonzales --
The city and the pillars / Adam Gopnik --
Soul food / Jim Harrison --
Slow flying stones / Kate Hennessy --
Visiting Norah / Edward Hoagland --
The scent of two cities / Kathleen Lee --
In the land of the white rajahs / Lawrence Millman --
Lambs of God and the new math / Toni Mirosevich --
Ancient roads, walled cities / Tom Mueller --
Where the bee sucks / Elizabeth Nickson --
Home for dinner / Molly O'Neill --
Zion's vital signs / P.J. O'Rourke --
Spain in a minor key / Tony Perrottet --
Making rain / Kira Salak --
The man upstairs / David Sedaris --
Stolen blessings / Thomas Swick --
Spetses, Greece / Isabella Tree --
The fist of God / Kate Wheeler.
2001: As long as we were together, nothing bad could happen to us / Scott Anderson --
Fox and whale, priest and angel / Russell Banks --
Volcano alley is ticking / Tim Cahill --
Among the man-eaters / Philip Caputo --
Iran : Are you ready? / Andrew Cockburn --
The endless hunt / Gretel Ehrlich --
Desperate passage / Michael Finkel --
Desert hideaway / Ian Frazier --
View from the bridge / Peter Hessler --
Why we travel / Pico Iyer --
Into the heart of the middle kingdom / Kathleen Lee --
Travels with Chekhov / Janet Malcolm --
Daughter of the wind / Lawrence Millman --
This we came to know afterward / Susan Minot --
The place to disappear / Susan Orlean --
The post-Communist wolf / David Quammen --
A dream of glorious return / Salman Rushdie --
Paradise lost / Edward W. Said --
Something wild in the blood / Bob Shacochis --
Croatian rock / Thomas Swick --
Miraculous fishing / Patrick Symmes --
Back in the USSR? / Jeffrey Tayler --
The very, very, very big chill / Marcel Theroux --
Is just like Amerika? / Brad Wetzler --
Dining out in Iceland / Jason Wilson --
Beyond Siberia / Simon Winchester.
2000: Boot camp / William Booth --
Lions and tigers and bears / Bill Buford --
This teeming ark / Tim Cahill --
The toughest trucker in the world / Tom Clynes --
Hitchhiker's Cuba / Dave Eggers --
Nantucket on my mind / David Halberstam --
The Nile at mile one / Mark Hertsgaard --
Spies in the house of faith / Isabel Hilton --
The first drink of the day / Clive Irving --
Land is good for you / Alden Jones --
The truck / Ryszard Kapuscinski --
Confessions of a cheese smuggler / David Lansing --
Inside the hidden kingdom / Jessica Maxwell --
Weird karma / P.J. O'Rourke --
Zoned on Zanzibar / Tony Perrottet --
Storming the beach / Rolf Potts --
The last safari / Mark Ross --
Winter rules / Steve Rushin --
From the wonderful people who brought you the killing fields / Patrick Symmes --
China's wild west / Jeffrey Tayler --
Exiled beyond kilometer 101 / Jeffrey Tayler --
The two faces of tourism / Jonathan Tourtellot --
The very short history of Nunavut / William T. Vollmann --
One man and his donkey / David Wallis --
Marseille's moment / Amy Wilentz.
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Collins, L. (., Bryson, B., & Wilson, J. (2000). The best American travel writing . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Collins, Lauren (Journalist), Bill Bryson and Jason Wilson. 2000. The Best American Travel Writing. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Collins, Lauren (Journalist),, Bill Bryson, and Jason Wilson. The Best American Travel Writing Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.
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