Once the haunt of dodos, the Indian Ocean isle of Mauritius now attracts pro beachcombers like John M. Edwards, who initially had trouble finding this paradise on a map.
John M. Edwards has no intention of conquering claustrophobia by going caving - until he remembers Pat Boone eating a giant mushroom in "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
John M. Edwards flips out over the Philippines, where visiting the 7,000 islands, will take island hoppers at least twenty years to see them all. Short on time, he picks out a few stunners from the Visayas.
In the hot spots of Indonesia, John M. Edwards went out to get a cup of java, in Java, and ended up on an infernal coffee odyssey through the Indonesian archipelago.