THIS BOOK is a journey and a biography. The setting is the world that unfolds beyond the Bosporus and the Symplegades; the world of the Black Sea. The hero belongs to the last generation of Greeks from the Euxine Pontus. He was born in 1899 in a Thracian village of the Ottoman Empire. His adventures begin in 1914, after the Balkan Wars, when, still a student, without a homeland or property, he went to Romania to work. The First World War found him in Constanța. He left for Galați. The front broke. From the Danube, he found himself on the Don. Berdyansk in the Sea of Azov. The October Revolution broke out. Novorossiysk. The White Russians are retreating, the British are withdrawing. From the Caucasus, he found himself in the City just before the Catastrophe. Constanța until '44. Bucharest after the Second War. Until, in 1950, finally leaving the Black Sea, he arrived with his wife and two small children at the Romanian refugee camp in Lavrio. Post-war Greece: a new and unknown world. At fifty-one, the well-traveled merchant begins his life anew for the seventh time. A farmer in Koropi. The story is completely true and is based on the autobiography of Yianko Daniilopoulos. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]