The Best American
Travel Writing
Book Details
Edited by The New Yorker's Bill Buford, the pieces collected here "prove that a restless, intrepid spirit isn't unwelcome to American readers" (New York Times Book Review).
Foreword by Jason Wilson
Introduction by Bill Buford
Appointment in Istanbul
from New York Times Magazine
Looking for Judas
from Virginia Quarterly Review
Down and Out in Fresno and San Francisco
from Esquire
The Undead Travel
from The Believer
The Hazda
from National Geographic
Travels In Siberia
from The New Yorker
Bat Man Returns
from Outside
A House is a Machine to Live In
from The Believer
Strange Stones
The New Yorker
The Lovely Stones
from Vanity Fair
State Fairs
National Geographic
Walking: An Essay on Writing
from AGNI
In Defense of Tourism
Travel + Leisure
Where Donkeys Deliver
from Smithsonian
The Ghost Course
The New Yorker
The Ponzi State
from The New Yorker
Me, Myself, and Ribeye
Outside
Guy Walks Into a Bar Car
from The New Yorker
The Filthy, Fecund Secret of Emilia-Romagna
Condé Nast Traveler
Nothing, Leave Nothing
from Lapham's Quarterly
Contributors' Notes
Notable Travel Writing of 2009
Other distinguished submissions on this topic, selected by the series editor.
A
A.A. Gill
from Vanity Fair, January.
B
Bucky Mcmahon
from GQ, December.
C
Candace Dyer
from Atlanta, September.
Carolyn Kormann
from Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.
Christopher Vourlias
from Washington Post, October 11.
D
David Amsden
from GQ, July.
Daniel Duane
from Men's Journal, September.
David Farley
from WorldHum, July 6.
David Rompf
from Memoir (and), Fall/Winter.
David Sedaris
from The New Yorker, August 24.
E
Emily Stone
from The Smart Set, September 11.
F
Frances Mayes
from Smithsonian, September.
G
Gary Shteyngart
from Travel + Leisure, December 2009.
Ginger Strand and James Wallenstein
from The Believer, October 2009
H
Herbert Gold
from Hudson Review, Autumn.
I
J
J. Malcolm Garcia
from Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall.
J. Malcolm Garcia
from McSweeney's, Panorama edition.
Jason Motlagh
from Virginia Quarterly Review, November.
Jeffrey Tayler
from WorldHum, February 23.
Jeffrey Tayler
from WorldHum, June 1.
John Lancaster
from The Smart Set, June 26.
Jonathan Harr
from The New Yorker, January 5.
Jon Mooallem
from Harper's, March.
June Thomas
from Slate, January 26-30.
K
Katherine Boo
from The New Yorker, February 23.
Kimberly Beekman
from Ski, March/April.
L
Leigh ann Henion
from Washington Post Magazine. March 29.
Leslie Anthony
from Skiing, February/March.
Luke Barr
from Travel + Leisure, April 2009.
M
Marc Peruzzi
from . Mountain Sports + Living, Winter.
Matthew Aikins
from Harpers, December.
Melinda Gerosa Bellows
from National Geographic Traveler, November/December.
Michael J. White
from New York Times Magazine, May 31.
N
Negar Azimi
from Harper's, June.
O
P
Patrick Symmes
from Outside, September.
Patrick Symmes
from Outside, April.
Paul Theroux
from Smithsonian, September.
Peter Lasalle
from Another Chicago Magazine,
Peter Laufer
from Southern Review, Autumn.
Pico Iyer
from Lapham's Quarterly, Summer.,
Q
R
Rob Story
from Skiing, January.
Robert Draper
from National Geographic, September
Robert Young Pelton
from Men's Journal, February
Rolf Potts
from WorldHum, November 16.
S
Seth Stevenson
from Slate, October 19-23.
Shoba Narayan
from Conde Nast Traveler, October.
Susan Conley
from New York Times Magazine, November 29.
T
Ted Conover
from Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.
Tony Perrottet
from Slate, December 14-18.
U
V
Verlyn Klinkenborg
from National Geographic, June.
W
William Powers
from Washington Post, July 19.
Witold Rybczynski
from The American Scholar, Summer.
