Picador

Andrew Pham bicycled across Vietnam twenty years after his family fled the country. The journey is external — heat, roads, food — and internal — identity, memory, belonging. A Vietnamese American returning to a place that's both home and foreign.

Walking across Afghanistan in the winter of 2002, alone, just after the fall of the Taliban. Stewart carried a walking stick and a letter from a warlord. The villages, the hospitality, the danger — all rendered with the clarity of someone who understood he might not make it.