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A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.
The book consists of a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Jurić, 9 essays, 10 travelogues, 9 essays, and 3 completed correspondences with poet Vesna Parun, editor Jože Pogačnik, and poet Boris A. Novak.
A collection of essays, portraits of personalities, social problems and landscape impressions with sharp criticism, cultural analyses and Matoš's characteristic polemical and lyrical style.
Two masterpieces of travel prose in which D. H. Lawrence records encounters with Mexican nature and Native American rituals, as well as Etruscan tombs and art, contrasting them with modern mechanical civilization.
The book contains three Latin reports by the Croatian Jesuit, nobleman and explorer Ivan Rattkay (Ratkaj, 1647–1683), born in Ptuj (today Slovenia), sent to the provincial of the Austro-Czech Jesuit province from the mission in northern Mexico.
A travelogue by British painter and travel writer Richard Wyndham from Sudan (Bahr el Ghazal Province). A vivid, humorous and introspective account of his encounter with African tribes, nature and colonial reality in the 1930s.