Boot camp / William Booth --
Lions and tigers and bears / Bill Buford --
This teeming ark / Tim Cahill --
The toughest trucker in the world / Tom Clynes --
Hitchhiker's Cuba / Dave Eggers --
Nantucket on my mind / David Halberstam --
The Nile at mile one / Mark Hertsgaard --
Spies in the house of faith / Isabel Hilton --
The first drink of the day / Clive Irving --
Land is good for you / Alden Jones --
The truck / Ryszard Kapuscinski --
Confessions of a cheese smuggler / David Lansing --
Inside the hidden kingdom / Jessica Maxwell --
Weird karma / P.J. O'Rourke --
Zoned on Zanzibar / Tony Perrottet --
Storming the beach / Rolf Potts --
The last safari / Mark Ross --
Winter rules / Steve Rushin --
From the wonderful people who brought you the killing fields / Patrick Symmes --
China's wild west / Jeffrey Tayler --
Exiled beyond kilometer 101 / Jeffrey Tayler --
The two faces of tourism / Jonathan Tourtellot --
The very short history of Nunavut / William T. Vollmann --
One man and his donkey / David Wallis --
Marseille's moment / Amy Wilentz.