"Never Travel with someone you don't love," Ernest Hemingway once said. In Wish You Weren't Here!, a hilarious anthology of some of the best writing on the worst of travel, it's easy to see why. This is a laugh-out-loud book, proof that it's far more enjoyable to read about travel mishaps than to experience them.

Contributors:

Nigel Barley, Ludwig Bemelmans, Bill Bryson, Christopher Buckley, W. Hodding Carter, Whit Deschner, Tony Hawks, Tony Horwitz, Pico Iyer, Jerome k. Jerome, John Krich, Pete McCarthy, Tom Miller, Tim Moore, Eric Newby, P. J. O. Rourke, Stuart, Stevens, Mark Twain, Sarah Vowell, E. B. White, Mark Winegardner.