A Kind of a Love Song

"In a beautifully written account of their travels together, far from the beaten path, Dwight Taylor has offered a charming, touching tribute to his late wife. The ideal companion in amateur archaeology, she alone discovers previously unrecognized clues to the location of a great battle of the ancient past, while the author, blessed with an uncanny eye for detail and a memory for astonishing conversations and encounters in every part of the globe, takes us to remote, dramatic places of which most of us can only dream. The reader will smile, learn, and be enjoyably enriched by every page." ~ Charles Bracelen Flood, prize-winning and best selling author: Grand and Sherman; Lee-the Last Years; Hitler-the Path to Power; Rise and Fight Again "Traveling becomes more than sightseeing in Dwight Taylor's beautifully written account of journeys to exotic places. Endowing his stories with imagination, a knack for bonding with local people and a sense of history he especially brings to life the classical world of Asia Minor. Infusing it all is a touching, but not at all sentimental, true love story of two mature people who share these adventures. A lovely book." ~James W. Michaels, Editor Emeritus, Forbes Magazine"Adventurous and unconventional, Dwight Taylor take s you through seventeen countries from Scotland to the Spice Islands, and from 3,000 B.C., in present day Iraq, to yesterday. You meet Everyman: from Homer and Sappho to the Nile River antiquities guard who could have shot him, to an Arab money changer who thought that he was Hamlet, to the soviets whose only map of Moscow intentionally mis-located everything but the city boundary...even to a wild baboon with him in the car. And if you have an ounce of interest in archaeology, this book will convert it to a pound or two. Refreshingly different: erudite, diverse, and greatly entertaining, with wry humor all along the way." ~David Stronach, Emeritus Professor of Near East Studies, University of California, Berkeley