Paul Bichler's riviting true-life story chronicles his world-wide adventures and quest to re-win the heart of Emerald, an attractive woman from North Dakota. As a young pilot and entrepreneur, Paul's many adventures take him to such diverse settings as Alaska gold mines, the Australian Outback, the jungles of, and Angels Falls in, Venezuela and Lake Titicaca, Peru at 12,00 fett above sea level. he crossed the Andes Mountains at 17,000+ feet above sea level in search of Inca gold. A native tribe put him in a tent with a killer snake (Bushmaster) to prove his worthiness to live. He located, staked, and recorded in a Lima newspaper one of the richest gold mines in the world, only to lose it to a family and the Peruvian government who in turn signed an agreement with a Canadian gold mining company ( his Peruvian partner and he were warned to leave if they valued their lives). Along the way, escapes injury in three separate near-fatal vehicle wrecks, and two single-engine airplane crashes. He loses and wins new cars at the roll of the dice or the draw of a ticket. Literary critics hail this as a work that both men and women can enjoy.