Traveling in Style

The summer issue of Traveling in Style magazine, in today’s Times, explores the theme “Worlds Apart.” It takes readers to such diverse places as an ancient plaza alive with snake charmers and palm readers in Marrakech, Morocco; closer to home, to the wilds of Sespe Creek near Ojai, a little-traveled paradise for mountain biking, flower gazing, camping and fishing, and to the globe’s southernmost inhabited land, wind-swept Tierra del Fuego in Argentina.

Best-selling author Peter Mayle takes us to a hunting-dog fair in a small village in Provence, France; Robert Cullen, who covers the Soviet Union for the New Yorker magazine, tells us how to get to know the real Russia that tourists seldom see, and Nora Gallagher, whose great-great aunt was the First Lady of Czechoslovakia, climbs a castle stairway into the history of Prague.

Also, scholar and essayist Paul Fussell laments the lost values of travel in an age of tourism, and we get a new perspective on planet Earth from artist Tom Van Sant, whose Geosphere project has put together the first cloudless, picture-perfect photograph of the globe by melding art and space-age science.