Introduction
Where in the World?
Six extraordinary writers pick their dream travel assignments
By Jan Morris
Morocco
Where Donkeys Deliver
The author returns to Fez to explore the stubborn animal's central role in the life of this desert kingdom
By Susan Orlean
Japan
Finding Serenity on Japan's San-in Coast
Far from bustling Tokyo, tradition can be found in contemplative gardens, quiet inns and old temples
By Francine Prose
India
Saving the Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
By Geoffrey C. Ward
Jamaica
Captain Bligh’s Cursed Breadfruit
The biographer of William Bligh—he of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty—tracks him to Jamaica, still home to the versatile plant
By Caroline Alexander
Poland
Under the Polish Sun
The memoirist trades Tuscany for the northern light and unexpected pleasures of Krakow and Gdansk
By Frances Mayes
United States
The Long Way Home
In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land
By Paul Theroux
