Snippets, glimpses of people she's met on her travels. And she has been everywhere! Worth dipping into a few at a time, but a few condescending comments do not show her at her best.

The book has a bit of a schizophrenic voyeuristic quality to it - it's composed of short bits (a paragraph to a page, no longer) from the adventurous life of Jan Morris. Each of these stories is unrelated to the next, and many are without explanation. There's no navel gazing in this book; at the same time part of me wondered - why was this detail selected? Why this story now?