"The author, a New Zealander, leaves his homeland . It tells of the writer’s journey from England across Europe and Asia and the Pacific to his homeland in New Zealand. He set out with £300 and travelled some 25,000 miles. It is the story of a search across the world. A search for four people who had helped him when he was an escaped prisoner of war in Poland, and a pilgrimage to many places that had intrigued him for years: a village in Sicily, ancient Ithaca, Isphahan, Persepolis, Halicarnassos, Anzac, Kabul, a mountain in Kurdistan and Mandalay. He travelled often on foot, sometimes on mule, in Greek caiques and Burmese sampans, in Arab and Afghan lorries and he followed many old roads, from Antioch to Damascus, from Kabul to Peshawar, from Ephesus to Istanbul. And he returned for the third time to his ”other home” which is Crete. It is a story of strange coincidences: he is arrested in the same mountain village in Poland where he was arrested by German police in 1944."

Contents : Return to Galatas: Greece and Crete The Monastery of the Beginning of Life: Samos and Ephesus A Road to Gallipoli: Turkey The Turks, the Kurds and the Mountain: Kurdistan The Inn of Omar Khayyam: Persia Smugglers and Snuff: Afghanistan Guns, Gardens and Hyderabad: Pakistan Mother India Across Forbidden Frontiers: Burma Tea with Teetar: Thailand and Malaya The Indonesian Shores: Indonesia and New Guinea The Island of White Gold: Nauru

1969 Hard-cover, some wear to the dust-jacket otherwise in good reading condition.

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