The Best American Travel Writing 2001 Other Diets An entertaining and indispensable guide

An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for “explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style” (The Economist)

But while her earliest compositions tried to punch every emotional hot button at once and came off sounding turgid and overblown

Adam Smith's masterpiece

the Nasdaq's phenomenal climb during the '90s epitomized the optimism Americans felt as they entered the new millennium—just as its fall would later reflect the nation's anxieties in a post-crash

The Best American Travel Writing 2001 Other Diets An entertaining and indispensable guideAlready a best selling addition to the series, this years Best American Travel Writing is a far flung collection chosen by travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux, who has selected pieces about the spell in the wilderness, the letter home from foreign parts, the dangerous adventure, the sentimental journey, the expos, the shocking revelation, the eyewitness report, the ordeal, the quest . . . Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. Therouxs most