The best American travel writing. 2019

Front Cover
 Front Matter
 Half Title
 Guest Editors of The Best American Travel Writing
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 Copyright
 Contents
 Foreword
 Introduction: Travel in the Time of Awakening
 Stephen Benz: Overlooking Guantánamo
 Maddy Crowell: The Great Divide
 David Fettling: Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar
 Alice Gregory: Finished
 Matt Gross: How the Chile Pepper Took Over the World
 Jamaica
 Hungary
 Thailand
 Rahawa Haile: I Walked from Selma to Montgomery
 Peter Hessler: Morsi the Cat
 Cameron Hewitt: A Visit to Chernobyl: Travel in the Postapocalypse
 The Tour
 The Accident The Exclusion ZoneThe Radiation
 The Russian Woodpecker
 The Sarcophagus
 The Ghost City of Pripyat
 The Liquidators
 Brooke Jarvis: Paper Tiger
 Saki Knafo: Keepers of the Jungle
 Lucas Loredo: Mother Tongue
 Alex MacGregor: Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
 Jeff MacGregor: Taming the Lionfish
 Friday
 Saturday
 In Which I Speak to the Mermaid
 Sunday
 The Big Finish
 Lauren Markham: If These Walls Could Talk
 Ben Mauk: The Floating World
 Devon O\'Neil: Irmageddon
 Nick Paumgarten: Water and the Wall