From the lush terraces of Lake Chapala, south of Guadalajara, Mexico, to the northern end of the Upper Galilee in Israel, author S. H. Oden explores the pain and exhilaration of his formative years in faraway lands. Meet beloved local Mexican patriarch Papa Mendoza and Circassian businessman ‘Karifar’ who does it his way in his personal quest for creative resource reallocation.
Explore the Sinai Peninsula and the wreckage of the 1967 desert war between Egyptian and Israeli forces as seen from 1971 on a once-in-a-lifetime trip into history. Glimpse the role of the volunteers that came from all over western Europe and the Americas to stream into the Israeli kibbutzim systems as part of the cultural movement in the 1960s and 70s. All set in motion by an electric love affair that should never have happened and split a family...