This anthology records both the struggles and joys of the personal transformation that occurs with reflective travel. When students have a chance to interact with the people and the issues of the world (and then to reflect on that interaction), they can develop new structures for meaningful dialogue, as well as make space for promising and competing world views.

Volume 1, Edition 2: Elusive Horizons (2004)
Volume 1, Edition 1: Letters Home (2003)




Volume 1, Edition 2: Elusive Horizons (2004)
To open oneself to the wonder of an encounter with the stranger is to begin to experience the strangeness of one's original home and perhaps, eventually, to imagine a world in which all of us strangers can build a common home - one with many rooms and views rather than a narrow tower that would define one set of horizons as absolute and final.
--from the introduction by John E Toewes
Director & Chair, Comparative History of Ideas Program


Volume 1, Edition 1: Letters Home (2003)
In this first edition and in its goal to publish annual compilations, this project demonstrates a commitment to rethink, to engage with the issues of the world and with one's own perceptions, and to make space for new understandings. As Letters Home demonstrates, travel transforms through the wonder and disequilibrium of difference.
--from the introduction by James D Clowes
Former Director, Comparative History of Ideas Program


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