pDreamers, Runaways, and Mysteries takes readers to many places around the world, some enfolded in mystery. ppbrppThe tales tell of characters drawn to these places, sometimes for escape from the lives they had led, and of incidents that memorably mark their travels. In India, an intrepid lady adventurer charms an unhappy American in Buenos Aires, a lonely tourist gets enraptured by a torrid story of tango dancers in Botswana, a safari takes a surprising twist under an astonishing guide in Singapore, fantasies of Somerset Maugham bewitch a yearning visitor in Rio de Janiero, a buoyant lady of the night beguiles a disaffected businessman in Saigon, a nostalgic journalist hears surprising secrets from a gentle Laotian. And many more.ppbrppThe essays share the tales' spirit of travel and sense of place as they plumb historical mysteries of Sagres, Portugal, where the great age of exploration began Shanghai, China, where past and present compete Khajuraho, India, where erotic temple art fl