Long distance / Torre DeRoche -- Eight hours in Bangkok / Blane Bachelor -- Small lights in large darkness / Rebecca Dinerstein -- Eggs is done! / Jan Morris -- This blessed plot, this Earth, this realm / Elizabeth George -- On the road to material / Jane Hamilton -- Journey 'round a war / Alexander McCall Smith -- A Scottish lesson / Keija Parssinen -- A single step / Mridu Khullar Relph -- The night is young / Yulia Denisyuk -- Deceleration / Emily Koch -- Flight path / Carissa Kasper -- Into the Congo / Jessica Silber -- The whispering lights of Lofoten / Candace Rose Rardon -- In the countryside / Marilyn Abildskov -- Focus / Shannon Leone Fowler -- A ticket to Vienna / Ann Patchett -- The road to Oaxaca / Francine Prose -- The land of the green sheen / TC Boyle -- Brave in Malaysia / Karen Joy Fowler -- Moldovan odyssey / Robin Cherry -- Tracks in the sand / Robert Twigger -- An Iranian-American in Indonesia / Porochista Khakpour -- Channeling Eudora / Natalie Baszile -- Jasmine and other flowers that make me cry / Suzanne Joinson -- I would go / Anthony Sattin -- The guide / Laurie Hovell McMillin -- Running the Subansiri / Bridget Crocker -- At home in Giza / Maggie Downs -- A cremation in Banaras / Bishwanath Ghosh -- The fool / Jeff Greenwald -- The man who told futures / Pico Iyer -- Hunting with the Hadzabe / James Dorsey -- On Dream Mountain / Tahir Shah.