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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45105489 Title: The best American travel writing 2000 Author: Bill Bryson Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. ISBN/ISSN: 061807466X : 9780618074662 0618074678 9780618074679 OCLC:45105489

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The best American travel writing 2000

Author:	Bill Bryson
Publisher:	Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.
Series:	The best American travel writing; The Best American series
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published in 1999, culled from more than three h Read more... The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published in 1999, culled from more than three hundred magazines, newspapers, and Web sites.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Bill Bryson Find more information about:
ISBN:	061807466X : 9780618074662 0618074678 9780618074679
OCLC Number:	45105489
Notes:	Reprinted from various periodicals.
Description:	307 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	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 -- Lard 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.
Series Title:	The best American travel writing; The Best American series
Responsibility:	edited and with introduction by Bill Bryson ; series editor, Jason Wilson.

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The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published in 1999, culled from more than three hundred magazines, newspapers, and Web sites.

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