Abstract
<p>The seven travelogues presented in this section of the book describe the benefits of seeing the world through the lenses of different people, places and cultures. They show how differences among nations are diminished by shared understandings and common problems, such as addiction. Most of the travelogues provide an insider’s view of how addiction science is understood, applied and conducted. They also describe how the career of Griffith Edwards evolved in relation to the emerging ideas and the global networks that he moved in and in some ways also created. Several of the trips (1955, 1970) have nothing to do with addiction, but they are included because they reflect his early interest in America and India as cultures he could learn from and write about with his characteristic eloquence.</p>