World of Worlds opens wide windows on seldom explored terrain in Africa, Europe, India, and the United States. Far from home, on bad roads month after month, usually broke, the characters-tough, rebellious young Americans, mostly-must react quickly to survive in strange, often alluring but pitiless surroundings.
In these fifteen short stories the characters test political, cultural, and racial limits on four continents, exposing themselves to relentless existential and physical pressures that threaten their moral underpinnings and their very survival.
Within the tumultuous years 1968 to 1981, they scale mountains in the Alps, carry messages for African guerrillas under the noses of the Apartheid military, turn beggar in India, fence stolen diamonds in Central Africa, and explore the Congo River in a leaky canoe.