Modern travel writers tend to set out to achieve some contrived physical feat, but the laid-back Andrew Jackson, fed up with his advertising career, set off - with his wife - to find the oldest people on the planet and discover the wisdom of age. Wandering around cities and villages from Denmark to South America, Australia and India, he met an amazing range of people, including peasants, philosophers, an opium addict, a former prime minister and a medicine man, and asked them predictable questions about history, their lives, the secret of longevity, their opinions of modern life. The answers he received were anything but predictable, and the resulting book, with captivating photographs, is a warm, wonderful, fascinating, inspiring portrait of the elders of our race and society at the end of the 20th century, coupled with one man's discovery of the secret of life.