Travel Memoir. Under the sub-title 'Adventures of a Tentative Traveller' the author recalls hilarious - and hair-raising - experiences around the world, including being trapped in a black-out in a New York apartment with a semi-wild jungle cat, picking tomatoes in 60's California, being mugged in Sicily, riding the 'Beef Road' in Australia's Kimberley, dancing with the Wig Men in Papua, praying with the monks on Mount Athos, pursuing quetzals in Guatemala, challenging a donkey in the Cyprus emergency, getting punch-drunk in Dominica...Take your pick!