Rock around the clock (Czech Repubilc) / Francine Prose Haunted by beau and beauties (England) / Edna O'Brien Heaven's Gate (Ethiopia) / Pico Banks Primal dreams (Florida) / Russell Banks A country made for living (France) / Patricia Storace Sip it slow (Georgia) / Nik Cohn The secret lives of Athens (Greece) / Patricia Storace The haunted land (Hawaii) / Jan Morris Lost horizons (Himalayas) / Suketu Mehta The loneliest place on Earth (Iceland) / Pico Iyer Gods, kings, mystics, and mullahs (Iran) / James Truman The glory that was not Rome (Italy) / Robert Hughes Bella Capri (Italy/Capri) / Shirley Hazzard Treasures of the Popes (Vatican) / John Julius Norwich Eight ways of looking at a garden (Japan) / Nicole Krauss Jinn City (Jordan) / Edmund White Beauty and the beast (Philippines) / Simon Winchester The red Danube (Romania) / Gregor von Rezzori Portrait of the city as genius (Barcelona, Spain) / Robert Hughes Pilgrim's pride (Santiago, Spain) / William Dalrymple Where the wild things are (Tanzania) / Philip Gourevitch