If you would delight in a meal with good conversation about remarkable events, the Dan's The Man who once cooked for a Prime Minister and feels his life has been a matter of luck. Ever with the wind on his back, as the Irish say, he's a continental hopper and continual explorer of islands and forest tracks. He is endlessly curious on these trips and a great omnivorous reader who soaks up the history of the country he is visiting, be it Ethiopia, India or Iraq; comments on national differences with a righteous desire for egalitarian justice, at the same time a love of nature and landscape that leads time and again to an ecological understanding that we must not continue to waste the World's great resources. He has got the brogue and good looks that have charmed many a colleen and had a go at numerous sports without outstanding success. In short, read along with him in this ever-shifting book of circumstance and your money will be well spent. After all, life's an adventure that that has its up and downs that can be taken lightly or lead to clever solutions to the most hideous circumstances. Peter JEFFERY OAM Poet, Broadcaster and fellow traveller. Dan must be the most travelled person I know. WOW! I have finished his book and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Five years in Europe, Britain, Asia, Africa, Middle East, North America. I guess a lot of people travelled that way with very little money - I did it differently later in life. Sometimes I was afraid for him, but he always came out okay in the end. He has a great sense of humour and I found myself laughing out loud many times. I liked the way he included films and books read. Africa and India were very interesting; I have not been there - South Asia and Indonesia were familiar from my trips later in life. I also used lots of different modes of transport to get around, as he did. Interesting trips in Australia too, and all his little snippets, or as he says, ramblings, thought-provoking bits about religion. I gather that the travel stories are based in diaries he kept at the time. Wonderful! As a close friend of Dan's said over lunch, "Reading the book is just like having lunch with Dan and listening with a touch of envy to his yarns". A lucky life indeed, dodging bullets and disease; and whilst being a rebel, Dan retains an integrity which makes him a compassionate and interesting person. Jenny PEARCE Adventurer, photographer, musician, bushwalker. Author of "A walk Along the Shore". Hey, It's Only Lucky him! Dan Moloney, denizen of the lucky country, dipped at birth into the National Luck Pool and riding opportunities rite-of-passage style around the big bad world of "Overseas". Dan Moloney, son of the West Australian soil, bouncing from obstacle to opportunity and back like a "Don't Argue" in a giant pinball game that will never end. Don't read this book slowly. Stop by the wayside to dwell on the who, the what or the why, and you'll get left behind. Names and places fly by too quickly here, so leave them in a blur and surf with Dan through the international bars, bedrooms and Badlands of this intercontinental rough and tumble romp, because it's only ever been about the journey. One man gets to do all this. Here's Luck. Doug JENNER Musician, entrepreneur, traveller

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