Reprinted from various periodicals.

Roman hours / Andre Aciman -- Below Canal Street / Scott Anderson -- Sovereigns of the sky / Stephen Bodio -- Throw junior from the car / William Booth -- Postcards from the fair / Kevin Canty -- A rio runs through it / Rod Davis -- Thirteen ways of looking at a void / Michael Finkel -- Forty years in Acapulco / Devin Friedman -- Beyond the end of the road / Laurence Gonzales -- The city and the pillars / Adam Gopnik -- Soul food / Jim Harrison -- Slow flying stones / Kate Hennessy -- Visiting Norah / Edward Hoagland -- The scent of two cities / Kathleen Lee.

In the land of the white rajahs / Lawrence Millman -- Lambs of God and the new math / Toni Mirosevich -- Ancient roads, walled cities / Tom Mueller -- Where the bee sucks / Elizabeth Nickson -- Home for dinner / Molly O'Neill -- Zion's vital signs / P.J. O'Rourke -- Spain in a minor key / Tony Perrottet -- Making rain / Kira Salak -- The man upstairs / David Sedaris -- Stolen blessings / Thomas Swick -- Spetses, Greece / Isabella Tree -- The fist of God / Kate Wheeler.

Presents a wide-ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and websites and encompassing articles and essays on adventures and locales around the world.