Pico Iyer Journeys
Postcards from the most beautiful riddle on the planet
Where travel becomes transport, and exploration surrender
Into the neon-lit wilderness
The forgotten home of global imagination - and conscience
Silence, stillness and the power of the unseen
The global village's scary, fast-rising big brother
A wild Shakespearean carnival around the clock
Those spaces not seen on our big, bright screens
The foreigner alone, a-tremble in the dark
The ceaseless explorer who'll try anything, twice
Out in the pulsing red-dirt emptiness
Strange fragments in the midst of war
