Introduction: Study for figures in a landscape --
My drug tour: searching for ayahuasca --
Thoreau in the wilderness --
Hunter in the kingdom of fear --
Nurse Wolf, the hurter --
Robin Williams: "Who's he when he's at home?" --
Mrs. Robinson revisited --
Talismans for our dreams --
The rock star's burden --
The seizures in Zimbabwe --
Stanley: the ultimate African explorer --
Paul Bowles: not a tourist --
Maugham: up and down in Asia --
English hours: nothing personal --
Traveling beyond Google --
Hawaii: islands upon islands --
Mockingbird in Monroeville --
Dear old dad: memories of my father --
The trouble with autobiography.