A review by killstorm
The Best American Travel Writing 2012 by William T. Vollmann, Jason Wilson

4.0

A mixed bag. My favorite items were on traveling the mall Victorian style, Timbuktu, the return of nature to Chernobyl, Cairo and the Garbage City, the US Mexico border, Amundsen and Scott and the Norwegian traverse, and the oddities of Tijuana.

Other items included the anti-mafia in Sciily, ongoing troubles in Belfast, the IRA and the murder of Paul Quinn, the Maine Coast in winter, a Paris literature tour, Bosnian war reckoning, the longest running passion play, death in Bulgaria, the Hindu holy city, safety in post-Apartheid South Africa, Vietnam cave, and a train jumper.