Table of contents : My invitation into the world -- A broken ring and a cracked lens -- A borrowed camera and a bag of peanuts -- The enchanted steel mills -- Fortune beckons -- Skyscrapers and advertising -- The country of the day after tomorrow -- Mother -- Assignment to the Dust Bowl -- The rocky road to Tobacco Road -- "You have seen their eyes" -- Life begins -- His excellency and the butterflies -- Love in Reno -- I photograph Stalin -- The lecture circuit -- The flying flitgun -- War at sea -- In the garden of Allah -- I go on a bombing raid -- "Sunny Italy" -- The forgotten front -- "We didn't know, we didn't know" -- The birth of twin nations -- The last days of Ghandi -- On a rocky Connecticut hill -- Land of darkness and diamonds -- Guerrilla warfare in Korea -- Nim Churl-Jin -- My mysterious malady -- Gift of science -- Postscript.