Postmodern Tourism : An Interview with Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer once referred to himself as "a global village on two legs." It's a fitting description for someone who was born in England to Indian parents, immigrated to California as a boy, was later educated at Eton and Oxford, and now spends much of his time in Japan. Pico Iyer"I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility," he says, "living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel.