As a journalist, Tom Phillips covered the turbulent secondhalf of the 20th century from New York, Moscow, Prague, Beijing,South Africa and Somalia. As a seeker, he hitch-hiked across America, rode the rails to the four corners of India,sat with a Japanese Zen master, and encountered Christianity on a subway escalator. That's just the surface of this engaging memoir, both a panorama of history and apersonal account of a beginner's life--one adventureafter...