TY - BOOK AU - Bourdain,Anthony TI - The best American travel writing 2008 T2 - Best American series SN - 9780618858644 (pbk.) U1 - 910.4 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Travel writing KW - Travel KW - Periodicals KW - Excerpts KW - Travelers' writings, American KW - Short stories, American N1 - Extreme chocolate; Bill Buford --; Phnom Penh now; Ian Buruma --; Chasing ghosts; James Campbell --; The border; Peter Chilson --; Brighton Beach memoir; Simon Doonan --; African promise; J. Malcolm Garcia --; Hope and squalor at Chungking mansion; Karl Taro Greenfeld --; Dark passage; Peter Gwin --; Wheels of fortune; Peter Hessler --; Georgia in the time of Misha; Melik Kaylan --; Next stop, squalor; John Lancaster --; Mr. Tingler; Emily Maloney --; The river is a road; Bryan Mealer --; The train to Tibet; Pankaj Mishra --; The most expensive road trip in the world; Annie Nocenti --; Kabul nights; Kristin Ohlson --; Journey into night; David Sedaris --; To Russia for love; Gary Shteyngart --; Looking for mammon in the Muslim world; Seth Stevenson --; Have book, will travel; Thomas Swick --; The woman in the Kuffiya; Jeffrey Tayler --; While the king sleeps; Matthew Teague --; The golden man; Paul Theroux --; Three chopsticks; Calvin Trillin --; Where the roads diverged; Catherine Watson ER -