Monuments to our better nature / Michael Byers
The accidental explorer's guide to Patagonia / Tim Cahill
The screenwriter's vacation / Richie Chevat
Canadian gothic / Douglas Anthony Cooper
History lesson / Joan Didion
Under the sheltering sky / Bill Donahue
Sandbags in the archipelago / Heather Eliot
Kashmiri extremism / Kevin Fedarko
Segways in Paris / Tad Friend
The people on the bus / Adam Gopnik
Innocents abroad? / Michael Gorra
Facing famine / Tom Haines
Chasing the wall / Peter Hessler
The ghost road / Mark Jenkins
The wrong side of the Cape / Rian Malan
Small world / Bill McKibben
A fleet of one / John McPhee
Gangsta war / George Packer
The road to Herat / Elizabeth Rubin
Places of darkness / Kira Salak
Shattered Sudan / Paul Salopek
Faces in a crowd / Thomas Swick
Don't fence me in / Patrick Symmes
The Kabul express / Patrick Symmes
Notable travel writing of 2003 / selected by Jason Wilson.