This is his story of the magic of travel, the experience of other places and peoples all of which has made him one of todays great travel writers.

Harvey Tyson, was a journalist on nine different daily newspapers in SA and abroad. He was an assistant editor on all three of South Africa's biggest daily newspaper and, for nearly 17 years, editor of Africa's biggest. He worked for The Times of London and other media and addressed conferences on three continents in a campaign to regain press freedom in the apartheid years. On his "retirement", in 1990 he started the SA Journalist Union's highest citation; helped launch a monthly political magazine; commentated on TV and wrote or co-produced a dozen books. During his 90th year he hopes to complete two more books covering a wide number of different topics and issues.