It’s the early seventies and young people all over Europe and America are on the move. Woodstock has set the tone of a generation, but the war in Vietnam is still raging and the Cold War casts a dark shadow. It is a time of protest and change. As the world is opening up, a young Irish man called Moon sets off with his friend Clob, travelling eastwards into Europe, hoping to reach India. That trip would be the first of many, sometimes with friends, often solo, always inspired by curiosity and filled with adventure.
These are the years before cheap air travel and freedom of movement, so even within Europe crossing borders requires visas and grappling with different currencies. Further east, countries fluctuating between monarchy and republic present their own challenges, and your passport and the stamps therein might bring a warm welcome or a frosty refusal.
Moon encounters bandits, shepherds, wild horsemen and genuinely hospitable people. He undertakes many diverse jobs for bed and board, from cooking and cleaning to welding and farm labouring. He makes a multitude of friends, goes on adventures both wonderful and terrifying, experiencing to the fullest a world which in many ways no longer exists.