Asia Adventure

Join me, the author, and my friend Bebe for a wild adventure in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh, North India. On the way, we stop in Delhi, where the sights, sounds, and smells send my mind in a whirl. A family of four rides by, balanced precariously on a scooter. Bone thin dogs search every nook and cranny for food. A man who manufactures silk and sells it all over the world reveals the finest cream-colored silk I have ever seen - so light in weight and fine in texture I can barely feel it, as if an eiderdown goose feather floats by.

Papua, with its vast regions of unexplored jungles and isolated indigenous tribes, is home to a medicinal plant with potent curative powers. The plant's unique ability to regenerate human nerves is even more consequential. Neurological scientist Ripo9n Siraj and his research botanist sister, Rava, search Papua's interior rivers for this rate miracle plant when they become the target of a scurrilous Asian virologist.