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    <title>best American travel writing 2009</title>
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    <namePart>Winchester, Simon.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxvi, 351 p. ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Generals in their labyrinth / Patrick Symmes -- Mind dismembered / Frank Bures -- Last wild river / Bronwen Dickey -- Intimacy / Andrâe Aciman -- Who is America / Chuck Klosterman -- Pervert's grand tour / Tony Perrottet -- Dip in the cold / Lynne Cox -- Mississippi drift / Matthew Power -- Mecca of the mouse / Seth Stevenson -- Deeds / Tom Sleigh -- Hotels Rwanda / Jay Kirk -- Dragon season / Kiran Desai -- Tigerland / Caroline Alexander -- Lost in the Sahel / Paul Salopek -- My servant / Eric Weiner -- Bolivia's wrestlers / Alma Guillermoprieto -- End of the end of the revolution / Roger Cohen -- By meat alone / Calvin Trillin -- Terminal beauty / Karrie Jacobs -- Tale of two crossings / Mark Schatzker -- Game over, perseverance, all I want is everything / Dimiter Kenarov -- Cabin of my dreams / Patrick Symmes -- Tracking down James Bond / Jay Cowan -- Ecotouring in Honduras / Elisabeth Eaves -- You do not represent the government of the United States of America / Daniel Alarcón.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited and with an introduction by Simon Winchester ; Jason Wilson, series editor.</note>
  <note>"A Mariner original."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and notes(p. [343]-347)</note>
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    <topic>Travel writing</topic>
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    <topic>Travel</topic>
    <topic>Periodicals</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Short stories, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Literatura de viaje</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Viajes periódicos</topic>
    <topic>Extractos</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Escritos americanos</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cuentos  americanos</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS 366 B561 2009</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">910.4</classification>
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