Merida, Uxmal, Kabah, Hormiguero, Chicanna, Began, Xpujil, Calakmul, and Campeche. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach

Vijayawada, Amaravati, Ghantasala, Machilipatnam, Guntupalli, Undavalli, Nagarjunakonda, Panigiri, Jaggaiahpet, Chennai government museum, and Hyderabad. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach

Lima, Arequipa, Mollendo, Puno and Pomata, Trujillo (Huaca de la Luna, Chanchan) Huaca de la Cao Viejo), Chimbote (Caral and Cerro Sechin), Chiclayo (Chotuna, Tucume, and Huaca Rajada). For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For pictures, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

Jambukeswara and Mangalyeswarar temples near Trichy, the Brihadeshwarar temple near Thanjavur, the Airavateswarar, Nageswarar, and Adi Kumbeswaram temples at Tanjore, the Gangaikondcholapuram and Malakadambur temples en route to Chidambaram, and the Nataraja temple at Chidambaram. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For picture…

For a transcript see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

Sydney, Adelaide, north to Broken Hill, Broken Hill, and Uluru. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784\ For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

Khami Ruins, Danangombe (Dhlodhlo), Nalatale, and Mapungubwe For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach

Scotland (Glasgow) and Romania (Sibiu, Vallea Viilor, Alma Vii, and Viscri). For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Battir, and Hebron. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

Ananta, Aurangabad, Khuldabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bishnupur. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784. For pictures, see greatmirror.com. For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

This is a rewrite of a speech read in 2014 at the Delhi meeting of the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA). For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach

I had a 6-month Fulbright to Peradeniya University, a few miles from Kandy, Sri Lanka. One day I was talking for some forgotten reason with the editor of The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. He said he needed something to fill the 2005 issue and asked if I had anything he might use. I gave him this. It appeared under the title "The Paddy Lands …

This sketch was published as Chapter 6 of Many Wests, a collection of essays edited by David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner and published by the University Press of Kansas in 1997.By Bret Wallach

This paper was read at the annual meeting in 1995 of the Association of American Geographers. For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

This is the first chapter of At Odds With Progress (University of Arizona Press, 1991). The published chapter title was "Potato Snows." For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach

This episode was originally published in the Fall, 1988, issue of Focus, a journal of the American Geographical Society. Clara Dodgson Millner, here called Granny, died in 2004 at age 101.By Bret Wallach