Join Emil on his adventures around the world in a series of beautifully written and illustrated stories-heartfelt, and uniquely insightful this book will take you from England to Africa, from Canada to Cyprus-all through the author's skillful storytelling lens... ..."As he gazed out at the revellers on the beach, he was transported to a beach in Africa, where a native boy peered at him from behind a sand dune, much as he had spent his life peering at the alien world around him, trying in vain to understand it, to make it more manageable. And so he oscillated between the past and the present-the past so dangerously more real..."