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Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. "Full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near" ( Library Journal ) this collection finds "a perfect mix of exotic locale and elegant prose" ( Publishers Weekly ).

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans – A Journey Into War, Chaos, and Violence in a Beautiful Region on the Brink

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible