The liberation of Sydney /by Robert Hughes (Australia)
Peeling away the masks of Vienna / by Stephen Schiff (Austria)
An island of old Europe / by Luc Sante (Belgium)
A miracle in the Caribbean / by Martha Gellhorn (Belize)
Heaven and earth / by James Truman (Bhutan)
Force of nature / by Wade Davis (Canada)
Some like it not hot / by Calvin Trillin (Ecuador)
The peak of my desire / by Russell Banks (Ecuador)
Oxford: the class of 1250 / by Henry Shukman (England)
Corroding the keys / by Jonathan Raban (Florida)
Isn't it romantic / by Christina Nehring (France)
The greatest show on earth / by Guy Martin (Germany)
Love and Hati and the whole damned thing / by Amy Wilentz (Haiti)
The Taj, the tiger, and the treepie / by E. L. Docktrow (India)
Maximun India / by Pico Iyer (India)
Love by the river Liffey / by Edna O'Brien (Ireland)
City of God, city of men / by Pico Iyer (Israel)
The filthy, fecund street of th Emilia-Romagna / by Patrick Symmes (Italy)
The Gods are watching / by Joan Juliet Buck (Italy)
My Monet / by André Aciman (Italy)
A streetcar named Sazerac / by Julia Reed (Louisiana)
A New Yorker in Old Amsterdam / by Jay McInerney (The Netherlands)
Romancing the river / by Patrick Symmes (New York)
Alexander's lost world / by William Dalrymple (Pakistan)
The city of will / by Robert Hughes (Russia)
L'Afrique, mon amour / by Amy Wilentz (Senegal)
¡Olé the home of legend / by Norman Lewis (Spain)
Spain at the extreme / by Gully Wells (Spain)
Dreams of the Orient / by Dan Hofstadter (Turkey)
Heart of wildness / by Rian Malan (Uganda).