Poet David Stuart Ryan describes his round the world journey in poems and pictures. More than 100 original color pictures bring the journey unforgettably alive as you join the poet on an epic adventure that takes in more than a dozen countries, and the searing encounters on the way. The sheer vividness of the East comes across in these scintillating picture and word poetic insights into its different ethos, traditions, landscape, culture, religion and philosophy. Above all, the haunting beauty of the Earth in all its variety: deserts, mountains, seas and jungles, comes across in picture after picture as you join the poet on his quest. From the Himalayan mountains to the jungles of Malaysia, the deserts of Iran and the beauties of Croatia's and Goa's sea coasts, you begin to explore a world rich in variety, experience and romantic possibility. You are about to ship out on a voyage of discovery that will remind you of all the world has to offer. The journey begins at Dover, England and finishes in Hong Kong ready for the next stage which leads on to the new world of Australia that awaits you in volume 4 of this multi-volume poetry collection by an international award-winning poet, travel writer, artist and film-maker. The pictures and words capture a moment in time, but this moment contains a lasting haunting grip on the imagination.