- The age of adventure travel
- We roam the globe yet lack insight into what we see
- Eden under siege
- Madagascar ... and lessons on Earth's fragility
- Spitting, staring and a square called Tiananmen
- China ... and lessons on emigration
- Hiking with children of the rain forest
- Borneo ... and lessons on modern missionaries
- Giraffes by the roadside
- Kenya and Tanzania ... and lessons on our love-hate relationship to Africa
- Civilities, sheepdogs and bomb survivors
- Japan ... and lessons on formal societies
- Waterworlds of the great navigators
- Polynesia ... and lessons on why culture survives
- Perfect seas
- Thailand ... and lessons on ultimate sailing
- The Odyssey of Sandstorm
- Greece ... and lessons on national greatness and decline
- Pyramids in the Americas
- The Yucatan ... and lessons on parallel evolution
- Shimmering heat and radiant Buddhists
- Burma ... and lessons on the nature of poverty
- Earthly paradises
- Java and Bali ... and lessons on how we view Heaven
- A crescent called New Africa
- Brazil ... and lessons on racial democracy
- Overall lessons: Bibliography, Index