From his home in Slovenia, young Joseph Dular escapes the continuing conflicts within his homeland to seek a new life—no matter where his wanderlust may take him. From the port town of Trieste, we follow his journeys over land and sea to Cairo, Mogadishu, and into the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. Because Joseph is a moral man, he is not content to be only an observer of the life around him:
(In Mogadishu) “It turns my stomach to think there may be human cargo imprisoned here, left to fend for themselves, left to die, by men who care not for the plight of another; men who see other men, other races, as cattle, or worse…. I have no idea what the reaction of these people will be when I release the lock, but that is not my concern just now. To free them is all that matters. I can hope they do not lash out at me in revenge for their imprisonment. That is a chance I am willing to take.”
The story of Joseph Dular belongs to any man whose being is filled with a desire to not only explore the world beyond his own but to affect it.
I turn my eyes away from the flame and my humanity screams until I think it must be audible to those around me. And there are many around me. How many, I have no idea. I can't see them all. The light from the torch reaches only so far back into the confines of the crypt. But in the light I can see: arms and legs, shackles and chains, faces filled with fear, eyes filled with terror. And...I can see faces that have no expression at all. The faces of death.
About D. D. Uller
D. D. Uller has done his share of traveling. As a child, family trips always followed the back roads. During a stint in the U.S. Air Force, he had the opportunity to experience the earth from other directions. Then as a coal miner, he saw the world from below. He’s been to many destinations several times, via different routes each trip. Of Joseph, he says: “It is a story for those who have (or have not, yet) set out on their own to find what the world has to offer. Travel enriched Joseph; it took him to destinations around the world and made him the man he needed to be.” Uller hopes to bring books two and three of Joseph’s continuing global adventures to readers in the not-too-distant future.
From his home in Slovenia, young Joseph Dular escapes the continuing conflicts within his homeland to seek a new life—no matter where his wanderlust may take him. From the port town of Trieste, we follow his journeys over land and sea to Cairo, Mogadishu, and into the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. Because Joseph is a moral man, he is not content to be only an observer of the life around him:
D. D. Uller has done his share of traveling. As a child, family trips always followed the back roads. During a stint in the U.S. Air Force, he had the opportunity to experience the earth from other directions. Then as a coal miner, he saw the world from below. He’s been to many destinations several times, via different routes each trip. Of Joseph, he says: “It is a story for those who have (or have not, yet) set out on their own to find what the world has to offer. Travel enriched Joseph; it took him to destinations around the world and made him the man he needed to be.” Uller hopes to bring books two and three of Joseph’s continuing global adventures to readers in the not-too-distant future.