内容简介：
Casual travelers stay in comfortable hotels, eat in clean restaurants, and observe the surface of foreign places. It is difficult, and probably not their intent, to go beyond these simple pleasures. However, when they can, many voyagers find it more interesting, and indeed a lot of fun, to peek behind the churches, museums, shops and theaters and look into the business offices, factories and homes of the people they see on the streets. This collection of stories supplies this unique perspective, generally with very surprising results.