Much more than just travel reports - a portrait of our world, from someone who has traveled it. Salman Rushdie "Far and Wide" brings together Andrew Solomon's reports that take him to distant places on all continents of the Earth, which are undergoing dramatic changes. He takes the reader on a journey to Moscow, where he visited artists and witnessed the end of the Soviet Union firsthand, to Afghanistan, to experience its millennia-old culture and the shocking destruction by the Taliban, and on to Myanmar, Mongolia, Antarctica, and Rwanda. With his numerous colorful and vivid stories, Solomon shows the reader how political and social changes lead to a transformation of the world.