The author has been a traveller and novelist for over 20 years and this collection not only records some of the events of this career but also gives an insight into the character of the writer It is wide ranging, beginning with his work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nyasaland writing a monthly letter to various American papers at the age of 23 and working (albeit unconsciously) for the German CIA, through many literary encounters to the explicit sexual urges of Mrs Robinson