Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. A vast range of human experience...

Cover subtitle: Brief encounters in a lifetime of travel.

Includes index.

0571250688 (hbk.)

9780571250684 (hbk.)

910.4