Preface / His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Introduction / Don George
The matter of kindness / Jan Morris
Meeting Maung-Maung / Pico Iyer
Everything come round / James D. Houston
One night in the Sahara / Amanda Jones
Tea and cheese in Turkey / Alice Waters
A bowl of soup, in a basket / Beth Kephart
Highland remedy / Fran Palumbo
Looking for Abdelati / Tanya Shaffer
Special delivery / Lindsy van Gelder
Brief encounter / Carolyn Swindell
Damascus by teatime / Don Meredith
My Beirut hostage crisis / Rolf Potts
We can't fix anything, even the smallest things, in Cuba / Dave Eggers
Losing it in London / Douglas Cruickshank
Andean high / Ginger Adams Otis
Serendipity / Laura Fraser
Arab music / Jennie Rothenberg
The way I look / Anthony Sattin
Finding shelter / Nicholas Crane
On the trail of the Caspian tiger / Tim Cahill
The road to Kampala / Stanley Stewart
At a crossroads / Laurie McAndish King
Adnan's secret / Maxine Rose Schur
Might be your lucky day / Jeff Greenwald
Ascension in the moonlight / Simon Winchester.