Compiled by the editors of Islands magazine.

Pacific: A world of islands in the South Pacific / Paul Theroux -- The Cook Islands / Lawrence Millman -- The Marquesas: beauty, terror, and sublime seclusion / Tim Cahill -- Vanuatu: the original Bali-ha'i / Frances FitzGerald -- Great Barrier relief / Christopher Buckley -- New Zealand: hard cases and room for hope / Michael Parfit -- Molokai: where old Hawaii lingers / William Ecenbarger -- Enchanting Chiloé / Tim Cahill -- On the edge of life in the South Shetland Islands / Michael Parfit -- North America: North to Alaska's ABC Islands: Admiralty, Baranof, Chichagof / Kim Heacox -- Vancouver: seeking a natural balance / Bill Barich -- Lake of the Woods / Jeff Spurrier -- A time in Newfoundland / Carol McCabe -- Nantucket: New England spirit distilled by the sea / Jan Morris -- The Watermen of Smith Island / Carl Hoffman -- Out of the past: a personal portrait of Key West / Barry Gifford -- Caribbean: My time in the Yucatn / Bryan Di Salvatore -- Cuba: an elegiac carnival / Pico Iyer -- Martinique: island of the returning ghosts / Herbert Gold -- Europe: Ireland: into the Mystic / Jessica Maxwell -- A landscape to cherish: Scotland's Shiant Islands / Adam Nicolson -- Budapest's Margaret Island / John McKinney -- Leningrad: Soviet Islands of culture / Pamela Sanders -- Asia/Africa: Zanzibar: out from behind the Spice Curtain / Bob Payne -- Seychelles: do you sincerely want to live in paradise? / Herbert Gold -- A taste for Penang: Malaysia's marvelous, movable feast / Charles Nicholl -- Singapore: crossing with the green man / Bryan Di Salvatore -- Because of you, Kyoshu / Rita Ariyoshi -- Yogyakarta: Java's cultural cauldron / Jeff Greenwald.