Smithsonian Magazine: September 2009
Features
Where in the World?
By Jan Morris
Where Donkeys Deliver
The author returns to Morocco to explore the animal's central role in the life of this desert kingdom
By Susan Orlean
Serene Japan
On the western coast, far from bustling Tokyo, tradition can be found in contemplative gardens, quiet inns and old temples
By Francine Prose
Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the northern Indian state still haunted by 1947's heart-wrenching Partition
By Geoffrey C. Ward
Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit
The biographer of William Bligh—he of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty—tracks him to Jamaica, and the completion of his star-crossed mission
By Caroline Alexander
Under the Polish Sun
The memoirist trades Tuscany for northern light and the unexpected pleasures of Krakow and Gdansk
By Frances Mayes
The Long Way Home
The noted world traveler fulfills a boyhood dream—to drive across America in the spirit of Kerouac, Steinbeck and other poets of the open road
By Paul Theroux
Departments
Indelible Images
Off to the Races
Andrej Bozek and his son Alec fled Poland in 1974. Photographer Sean Kernan followed them from an Austrian refugee camp all the way to Texas
By Dewitt Sage
Wild Things
Wild Things:
Life as We Know It
Hungry snakes, giant kangaroos, bat noses, and more
By Abby Callard, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Ashley Luthern and Sarah Zielinski
Around the Mall
Back to Basics
Transforming everyday items into Native American artwork, Brian Jungen bridges the gap between indigenous and mass cultures
By Megan Gambino
