This is an account of the author's journey from south-east Asia to his home in Scotland. The book is is the last in a trilogy covering his five-year pilgrimage around the world. Travelling on foot and by public transport - including camel, elephant and Calcutta's Black Hole buses - the author journeys, notebook in hand, through the cultures of the Far and Near East. There are accounts of a hasty funeral on the islands of Indonesia, a bizarre game of football in Thailand, an extensive journey through China, a rhinoceros hunt in Nepal, castles in Syria and the monasteries of Mount Athos.