2004 Best Travel Writing Series

If you like good travel writing, the Best American Travel Writing series is a book to get your hands on. I have read this book every year since, like, 2001. I just got this year's edition, 2004, which is edited by Pico Iyer, and it has so far completely met my expectations. I've read a handful of the stories already, but I was very pleased to discover that I'd never even heard of many of the stories (as an an avid reader of travel literature I feel dialed in to what's out there). I was also very happy to see that they included not one, but two! stories from WorldHum, an online publication. If you have not visited Worldhum yet, I vigorously argue that you do so. It is an excellent source of great travel writing and information (even if the site needs a dramatic design overhaul). Rather than detail the stories myself, here's what the site says about what's inside:  

Roger Angell remembers a sense of adventure during childhood car trips in New York (one taken with E. B. White, his future stepfather). Tim Cahill describes the joy of trekking in Patagonia, his "new favorite place on earth." Heather Eliot writes of a fevered love affair in the South Pacific, and Tad Friend hilariously tells of introducing Segways to Paris. George Packer recalls his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and the swirl of political unrest there.

Pretty cool, eh?

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