A tiger took his hands, he bit off his own tongue during a malaria attack, and he lost his left eye in a fight with an Afghan resistance fighter while trying to relieve him of two kilos of hashish. That could have happened. But one thing you really can't say about Helge Timmerberg is that he hasn't lived. This book, with its best stories, reports, and adventures—some of which were originally published in magazines such as Merian, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Zeit, Playboy, Tempo, Wiener, Bunte, Prinz, or PUR—testifies to the fact that his entire life has been a long, wild, colorful trip through inner and outer worlds. Time and again, Timmerberg has sought out distant places. The stories of this modern nomad, who cannot live without traveling, bear witness to that: for example, tales of the Yakuza in Japan and from Tel Aviv.