The best American travel writing.  2001 / 
edited and with an introduction by Paul Theroux. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  2001. 
 - xxii, 418 p. ;  21 cm. 
 - The Best American series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618118772 9780618118779 0618118780 (pbk.) 9780618118786 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel writing.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Relatos de viajeros--Historia y crítica.<br/>Literatura estadounidense--Historia y crítica.<br/>Viajes en la literatura.<br/>Estadounidenses--Historiografía.--Países extranjeros<br/>Relatos de viajes--Historia.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 366  / B561 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9355