| Description |
xx, 231 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"1530-1516." |
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"A Mariner original." |
| Contents |
How to explore like a real Victorian adventurer from The believer / Monte Reel -- The 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 -- The wicked coast from The Atlantic / Paul Theroux -- Letter from Paris from The Houston review / Michael Gorra -- The reckoning from The New York times magazine / Kenan Trebincevic -- The 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 Condé 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. |
| Subject |
Travel writing.
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Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Vollmann, William T. Editor.
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| ISBN |
9780547808970: $14.95 |
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0547808976 |
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