Table of Contents

Youthful Optimism; Where Does Asia Begin? Annoyances in Anatolia; Joy & Woe in Paradise; Baghdad -- in the Footsteps of Haroun al Rashid; The First Great Crisis; The Paris of the East; Desert Fever & a Missionary; Our Life in the Desert; Letters From Home; The Salt Desert of Dasht-e-Lut; In the Oasis of the Water Thieves; The Second Great Crisis; Latif Hamid & the Dynamo; The Map of India; How We Lost Face in the Golden Temple; Grass Fire & a Guilty Conscience; Vaikunth -- Heaven on Earth; Crossing India; The Wish List.