Publisher's preface / James O'Reilly
Introduction / Simon Winchester
The snake charmer of Guanacaste (Costa Rica) / Patrick Fitzhugh
Mohammed Ali, ear cleaner (India) / Brad Newsham
Citizen Mulenge (Zaire (Congo)) / Joseph Diedrich
Learning to breathe (Laos) / Alison Wright
The bird king of Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Larry R. Moffitt
Bracelets and hunger (Vietnam) / Ayoung M. Kim
My new best friend (Nepal and Tibet) / Jeff Greenwald
City undone (Thailand) / Jhana Bach
The summer of the lost ham (Canada) / Laurie Gough
Where I am (Malawi) / Bradley Charbonneau
Doublestar (why I write) (Alaska) / Dustin W. Leavitt
The tao of bicycling (China) / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Walking the Kerry Way (Ireland) / Tim O'Reilly
Hard by the Irrawaddy (Burma) / Richard Sterling
The laundromat on Rue Cler (France) / Phil Thompson
In the kitchen with Yuyo (Mexico) / Augusto Andres
Uncomfortably numb in Prague (Czech Republic) / David Farley
Onionskin (Italy) / Gayle Keck
Paris, when it drizzles (France) / Richard Goodman
It's Dar es Salaam and I am not dead (Tanzania) / Jono Marcus
El Imperfecto (Ecuador) / Amy Thigpen
I follow the white dog (Russia) / Kevin McCaughey
Between air and water (Italy) / Elizabeth Wray
First flight (USA) / Larry Habegger
Running the current of Cripple Creek (Nevada and Utah) / Judy Zimola
A perfect rose (Pakistan) / Mary Louise Clifford
Anthem soul (Syria) / Rolf Potts
Under the protection of the cow demon (Japan) / Ed Readicker-Henderson.
