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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>best American travel writing</title>
    <partNumber>2001</partNumber>
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    <extent>xxii, 418 p. ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited and with an introduction by Paul Theroux.</note>
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    <topic>Short stories, American</topic>
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    <topic>Relatos de viajeros</topic>
    <topic>Historia y crítica</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Literatura estadounidense</topic>
    <topic>Historia y crítica</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Viajes en la literatura</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Estadounidenses</topic>
    <geographic>Países extranjeros</geographic>
    <topic>Historiografía</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Relatos de viajes</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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