Praise -- TRAVELERS' TALES BOOKS -- Title Page -- The Sailor -- Publisher's Preface -- Introduction -- Red Lights and a Rose -- Ice Ghost -- The Unquenchable Sea -- Holy Land Blues -- I Read Walden Once -- The Skeleton Coast -- The Winding Road to Joshua Tree -- Castles in the Sky -- Heroes of the Caribbean -- 1. Go -- 2. Escalation -- 3. Suspicions On the Demographic Make-Up of Passengers -- 4. Fruit Caps -- 5. Other Misconceptions -- 6. Figuring Out What to Do with Islands -- 7. Food Group #1: Guinness -- 8. Casino Girls -- 9. Food Group #2: Menu Fare -- 10. The Fast Fan of Guadeloupe -- 11. Time and Other Dangers -- 12. Closer Still -- 13. Degradation -- 14. Stay -- Flamenco Form -- Key to the City -- Don't Dread the Dread, Mon -- Mount Rushmore Revisited -- The Tides of Burano -- The Secret of the World Sleeps in a Calabash -- Once That Gun Goes Off -- The Village Kazani -- Baguio City Angels -- Why -- Goods Who Smell Like Goats -- Tortola -- Breadstick Hydra -- Ride to Karakourum -- Night, the Desert, and a Car -- Above Crystal Mountain -- Shoes Like Gondolas -- As Wind Moves, So Does Memory -- Philomen and Baucis -- Death of an Adventure Traveler -- Acknowledgements -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- Copyright Page.