The international odyssey of an American doctor: The author is a Harvard-educated physician whose career in international medical education has taken him to more than 100 countries during the eight decades of his life. His work brought him into contact with persons in all walks of life, from presidents, kings, and the world's last emperor to the poorest of the poor, with many unusual adventures. His professional accomplishments appear in such standard reference works as Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

Behind the Edwin W. Brown Collection at Taylor University -- one of the world's finest holdings of C. S. Lewis first editions, letters, and manuscripts -- are tales of thirty years of warm and humorous adventures, tales of curiosity, perseverance, and "coincidence" -- a British pub in an American basement -- an obscure name scrawled in a rare Lewis book -- a long-lost Lewis manuscript which solves a modern controversy -- a little girl's treasure, sold by mistake and amazingly recovered --and friendships and encounters with those (among many others) who knew Lewis well -- Walter Hooper, Doug Gresham, Pauline Baynes, George Sayer, and Owen Barfield.