Roland and Sabrina Michaud, now in their eighties, have spent<br><br>most of their lives together exploring Africa and Asia. Their travels<br><br>have taken them to far-flung places, including Yemen, Ethiopia,<br><br>Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Throughout their journeys Roland<br><br>and Sabrina photographed and wrote about what they saw. This<br><br>breathtaking account of their travels features nearly 500 color<br><br>images that capture, with sensitivity, curiosity, and delight, the<br><br>people they met and the landscapes they traversed. Organized into<br><br>sections that focus on particular regions, the book takes readers<br><br>to the monasteries and villages of China, the tents of Mongolian<br><br>nomads, and the black rocks of northern Pakistan. Many of their<br><br>images are indelible studies of faces: the weathered faces of<br><br>Kazakhstani men, their heads wrapped in turbans; or the shy veiled<br><br>face of an Iranian mother nursing her child atop a camel as she<br><br>travels from summer pastures to the Persian Gulf. Throughout the<br><br>book the Michauds' eloquent commentary gives context to these<br><br>remarkable images, and offers their uniquely humane perspective<br><br>on what it means to encounter incredible beauty, harsh landscapes,<br><br>and unfamiliar surroundings. Best of all, it describes the pleasures<br><br>of meeting people whose joys, sorrows, and struggles we all share.