Postmarks from a Political Traveler

As spring and summer vacations beckon, this book invites and incites a whole new approach to travel

Introduction; Part I Down at the Blue Lagoon; Chapter 1 Two Minds, Two Worlds, One Country; Chapter 2 Lest We Forget; Chapter 3 Go Hunting Where the Ducks Are; Chapter 4 The Cross-Fertilization of Attitudes and Practices; Chapter 5 Religion, Education, Poverty, Xenophobia, and Rainbows; Part II Polar Bears; Chapter 6 The Hudson Bay Train to Churchill; Chapter 7 A Blue-Ribbon Day and a Blue Moon; Chapter 8 Canaries in the Coal Mine; Part III An Anti-American Age; Chapter 9 Beauty Is As Beauty Does; Chapter 10 Pirates at Sea; Chapter 11 Tiger Cages and Torture; Chapter 12 We Believe; Therefore It Must Be True; Chapter 13 Mooning the Russian Army; Chapter 14 Bush, Brickbats, and Bouquets in the Koreas; Chapter 15 Welcome Home, Man; Part IV Return to Kabul; Chapter 16 Testing Our Resolve; Chapter 17 An Improvised Excursion through Kabul; Chapter 18 Fortress America and an Army of Aid Workers; Chapter 19 Let Me Die in My Footsteps;