The best American travel writing. 2012
(Book)

How to explore like a real Victorian adventurer from The believer / Monte Reel --

The telltale scribes of Timbuktu from National geographic / Peter Gwin --

Chernobyl, my primeval, teeming, irradiated Eden from Outside / Henry Shukman --

Garbage city from VQR / Elliott D. Woods --

My days with the anti-Mafia from The Missouri revew / Thomas Swick --

City of walls from The American scholar / Robin Kirk --

Now ye know who the bosses are here now from McSweeney's / J. Malcolm Garcia --

The wicked coast from The Atlantic / Paul Theroux --

Letter from Paris from The Houston review / Michael Gorra --

The reckoning from The New York times magazine / Kenan Trebincevic --

The Tijuana Sports Hall of Fame from Grantland / Bryan Curtis --

Holy city of the Wichitas from Ecotone / Kimberly Meyer --

Momento mori from The believer / Dimiter Kenarov --

Maximum India from Condé nast traveler / Pico Iyer --

Keeping watch from Harper's magazine / Lynn Freed --

Walking the border from Esquire / Luke Dittrich --

Amundsen schlepped here from Outside ; Conquering an infinite cave from National geographic by Mark Jenkins --

Railroad semantics from Railroad semantics / Aaron Dactyl.