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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Best American Travel Writing)by Jamaica Kincaid
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother and the novel Annie John. Her travelogue Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas appeared in 2005. She lives in Vermont with her two childen and a garden, in which she travels a great deal. Synopsis:A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
Synopsis: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 numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother and the novel Annie John. Her travelogue Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas appeared in 2005. She lives in Vermont with her two childen and a garden, in which she travels a great deal. About the AuthorJASON WILSON is the drinks columnist at the Washington Post, the series editor of The Smart Set, and the author of Boozehound: On The Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated. He teaches at Drexel University.
JAMAICA KINCAID is the author of numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother and the novel Annie John. A contributor to The New Yorker, she recently appeared in "The Sophisticated Traveler" in the New York Times, and her travelogue, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya, will be published in 2005, along with her new novel, My Favorite Tool. Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Jason Wilson ix Introduction by Jamaica Kincaid xiii Timothy Bascom. A Vocabulary for My Senses 1 from The Missouri Review Madison Smartt Bell. Mine of Stones 8 from Harpers Magazine Tom Bissell. War Wounds 32 from Harpers Magazine William E. Blundell. My Florida 51 from The American Scholar J . Michael Fay. In the Land of the Surfing Hippos 63 from National Geographic Ian Frazier. Route 3 79 from The New Yorker Jim Harrison. A Really Big Lunch 92 from The New Yorker William Least Heat-Moon. By the Big Sea Water 102 from Gourmet Peter Hessler. Kindergarten 109 from The New Yorker Jack Hitt. Say No More 129 from the New York Times Magazine Pam Houston. The Vertigo Girls Do the East Tonto Trail 141 from National Geographic Adventure Ben Ryder Howe. An Impossible Place to Be 149 from Outside Tom Ireland. My Thai Girlfriends 162 from The Missouri Review Mark Jenkins. Leap Year 179 from Outside Murad Kalam. If It Doesnt Kill You First 187 from Outside Charles Martin Kearney. Maps and Dreaming 201 from The Missouri Review Thomas Keneally. Romancing the Abyss 221 from Condé Nast Traveler Bucky McMahon. Adrift 233 from Esquire John McPhee. Tight-Assed River 244 from The New Yorker Robert Young Pelton. Into the Land of bin Laden 272 from National Geographic Adventure David Quammen. West Highland Peace Trek 292 from National Geographic Adventure Kira Salak. The Vision Seekers 308 from The Sophisticated Traveler Seth Stevenson. Trying Really Hard to Like India 314 from Slate.com William T. Vollmann. They Came Out Like Ants! 325 from Harpers Magazine Simon Winchester. Welcome to Nowhere 354 from National Geographic Adventure Contributors Notes 363 Notable Travel Writing of 2004 371
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