The best travel writing : true stories from around the world / edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly ; [introduction by Tony Perrottet].

Publisher's preface /James O'Reilly -- Introduction / Tony Perrottet -- Escape from Darien (Panama) / Cameron McPherson Smith -- Officially a woman (Mexico) / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- No sin in Ecuador (Ecuador) / Justin Peters -- Bamenda syndrome (Cameroon) / David Torrey Peters -- Mother, India (India) / Jeff Greenwald -- Crazy diamond (Texas) / Adrian Cole -- Raw meat, Barry White, and the brothers (Italy) / Matthew Gavin Frank -- Chance life (Colorado) / Millicent Susens -- Choices rejected (Ethiopia) / Carol Beddo -- Floating coffin of Tonle Sap Lake (Cambodia) / Michael McCarthy -- On the occasional importance of a ceiling fan (Puerto Rico) / Emily Stone -- That's amore (Italy) / Susan Van Allen -- Toward Stalin (Georgia) /Gabriel O'Malley -- Tiger (Nepal) /Patricia Dreyfus -- Empty rocker(Amsterdam) /Kathleen Spivack -- Papa's ghost(Cuba) /Gary Buslik -- Shopping for dirndls(Vienna) /Jill Paris -- Up Cambodia without a phrasebook(Cambodia) /Rolf Potts -- I hold high my beautiful, luminous Qur'an(Ghana) /David Grant -- Antarctica Concerto (Antarctica) /Cecilia Worth -- Vast difference (Minnesota) /Deborah Fryer -- Long red road (Congo/Zaire) /Ken Matusow -- In a place of wind (Mongolia) /Erika Connor -- Confessions of a "born-again" cowboy in France (France) /Peter Wortsman -- Let's spend the night together (USA) /Chris Epting -- Discalced (Baja California & Spain) /Bruce Berger -- Hair to the throne (England) /Marc-Edouard Leon -- My special education(Italy) /David Farley -- Life in the world (The world) /Pico Iyer.