The best American travel writing 2002 / edited and with an introduction by Frances Mayes; series editor, Jason Wilson

Roman hours / Andre Aciman -- Below Canal Street / Scott Anderson -- Sovereigns of the sky / Stephen Bodio -- Throw junior from the car / William Booth -- Postcards from the fair / Kevin Canty -- A rio runs through it / Rod Davis -- Thirteen ways of looking at a void / Michael Finkel -- Forty years in Acapulco / Devin Friedman -- Beyond the end of the road / Laurence Gonzales -- The city and the pillars / Adam Gopnik -- Soul food / Jim Harrison -- Slow flying stones / Kate Hennessy -- Visiting Norah / Edward Hoagland -- The scent of two cities / Kathleen Lee -- In the land of the white rajahs / Lawrence Millman -- Lambs of God and the new math / Toni Mirosevich -- Ancient roads, walled cities / Tom Mueller -- Where the bee sucks / Elizabeth Nickson -- Home for dinner / Molly O'Neill -- Zion's vital signs / P.J. O'Rourke -- Spain in a minor key / Tony Perrottet -- Making rain / Kira Salak -- The man upstairs / David Sedaris -- Stolen blessings / Thomas Swick -- Spetses, Greece / Isabella Tree -- The fist of God / Kate Wheeler

The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of running away to live in the place of one's dreams.

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