[1.] Zuñi (1947): The pueblo -- The anthropologists -- Shálako -- Navaho interlude -- Shálako continued -- Departure -- [2.] Haiti (1949): Cotton Blossom Express -- Miami -- Two West Indian authors -- King Christophe's citadel -- Color politics -- Marbial -- Haitian literature -- Voodoo converts -- Pastor McConnell -- Port-au-Prince -- [3.] Soviet Russia (1935): Old England -- London to Leningrad -- Leningrad theaters -- On the margin of Moscow -- Volga idyll -- Odessa: counter-idyll -- Final reflections -- [4.] Israel (1954): On first reading Genesis -- Éretz Yisraél: Samaritan Passover ; The guardians of the city ; The fiction of S.Y. Agnón ; Theocracy ; Tanách ; Jerusalem the golden ; Degániya ; Éretz Yisraél.