Philip Zeid expounds on his unordinary educational encounters. His story begins with his encounters amid the bombarding of England by the Germans toward the start of World War II, trailed by his volunteering as a pilot in the RAF and his preparation in America, which, at the time, was not at war. He in the long run exchanged to lightweight planes and served in the Burma Campaign. After the war and due to the segment revolts in India, his desire to be a tea grower there finished in him turning into an elastic grower in Malaya where he encountered ten years of the Emergency both as an unhitched male and later with his significant other and family. He likewise brought a few inventive strategies into his work. He encountered numerous abnormal episodes in an assortment of nations and spots, which incorporate America, Mexico, India, Burma, Thailand (Siam), Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Himalayas, and a few other fascinating spots. He additionally gives an understanding into how "you can never tell" which occasions—little or substantial, close or far—can impact our future lives. In this book, he demonstrates how taking up radio as a leisure activity, how declining to wear glasses as a youngster, how the segment revolts in India, how being paying off debtors on his first leave from Malaya, and what number of other such occurrences could profoundly affect his life.