Walter Kaufmann, who reflected on his eventful life across three continents in his highly regarded autobiography "In the Flow of Time" (2010), enriches his life story with additional facets in this volume. Here, he presents a kaleidoscope of people who crossed one of his many paths around the globe, such as the physical education teacher who defended him against a Hitler Youth leader in 1937, the British sergeant who had to guard "enemy aliens" on their ship passage to Australia in 1940, an Australian actress with whom Kaufmann had a liaison, a Russian-Jewish interpreter whom he helped in a political emergency, the ship engineer to whom he provided romantic support in Havana, the representative of do-it-yourself books whom he accompanied while he worked through Harlem, New York's Black neighborhood, or the lawyer who later became a federal minister.