From his high-spirited account of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on a whim when he was 22 to his heart-plucking description of a homestay in a stilt house in northern Cambodia at 61, this collection ranges through the world outside and the world inside. Renowned for his insightful observations and poetic prose, George adventures around the globe with an open heart and mind, always trying to absorb the essence of the places he’s visiting and to make sense of the pieces of the planet that emerge.