Rock around the clock (Czech Repubilc) / Francine Prose
Haunted by beau and beauties (England) / Edna O'Brien
Heaven's Gate (Ethiopia) / Pico Banks
Primal dreams (Florida) / Russell Banks
A country made for living (France) / Patricia Storace
Sip it slow (Georgia) / Nik Cohn
The secret lives of Athens (Greece) / Patricia Storace
The haunted land (Hawaii) / Jan Morris
Lost horizons (Himalayas) / Suketu Mehta
The loneliest place on Earth (Iceland) / Pico Iyer
Gods, kings, mystics, and mullahs (Iran) / James Truman
The glory that was not Rome (Italy) / Robert Hughes
Bella Capri (Italy/Capri) / Shirley Hazzard
Treasures of the Popes (Vatican) / John Julius Norwich
Eight ways of looking at a garden (Japan) / Nicole Krauss
Jinn City (Jordan) / Edmund White
Beauty and the beast (Philippines) / Simon Winchester
The red Danube (Romania) / Gregor von Rezzori
Portrait of the city as genius (Barcelona, Spain) / Robert Hughes
Pilgrim's pride (Santiago, Spain) / William Dalrymple
Where the wild things are (Tanzania) / Philip Gourevitch.