BOOK Jamaica Kincaid THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING
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- Subject
- Travel, Geography & Exploration
- ISBN
- 9780618369522
- EAN
- 9780618369522
- Publication Name
- Best American Travel Writing 2005
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Series
- Best American Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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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 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 children and a garden, in which she travels a great deal.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
061836952x
ISBN-13
9780618369522
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038851402
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Best American Travel Writing 2005
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Best American Ser.
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16 Oz
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Table of Content
Contents 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 Harper's Magazine Tom Bissell. War Wounds 32 from Harper's 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 Doesn't 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 Harper's Magazine Simon Winchester. Welcome to Nowhere 354 from National Geographic Adventure Contributors' Notes 363 Notable Travel Writing of 2004 371
Copyright Date
2005
Topic
Journalism, American / General, Essays & Travelogues
Dewey Decimal
910
Intended Audience
Trade
Genre
Travel, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
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