CURRENT ISSUE
September 2009
Features
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Where in the World?
Jan Morris, one of the world's leading travel writers, introduces six essays and describes the challenges of modern travel writing
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Where Donkeys Deliver
The author returns to Fez to explore the stubborn animal's central role in the life of this desert kingdom
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Serene Japan
Far from bustling Tokyo, tradition can be found in contemplative gardens, quiet inns and old temples
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Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
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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
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Under the Polish Sun
The memoirist trades Tuscany for the northern light and unexpected pleasures of Krakow and Gdansk
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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
Departments
Off to the Races
Photographer Sean Kernan followed Polish immigrants Andrej and Alec Bozek from an Austrian refugee camp to Texas
Back to Basics
Transforming everyday items into Native American artwork, Jungen bridges the gap between indigenous and mass cultures
Attack At Sea
A WWII sailor's memento recalls the harrowing ordeal when his ship, the SS Alcoa Guide, was struck by a German U-Boat
Q&A: Tom Cavanagh
Actor Tom Cavanagh discusses what it is like to go behind the scenes of the Smithsonian museums