The Best American Travel Writing 2001 Author:Paul Theroux (Editor) Already a best-selling addition to the series, this year"s Best American Travel Writing is a far-flung collection chosen by travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux, who has selected pieces about "the spell in the wilderness, the letter home from foreign parts, the dangerous adventure, the sentimental journey, the exposé, the s... more »hocking revelation, the eyewitness report, the ordeal, the quest . . . Travel is an attitude, a state of mind." Theroux"s most recent novel is Hotel Honolulu.
As long as we were together, nothing bad could happen 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 --
Croation rock / Thomas Swick --
Miraculous fishing / Patrick Symmes --
Back in the USSR / Jeffrey Tayler --
The very, very, very big chill / Marcel Theroux --