From theSudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerising taleof high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes nationalservice in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the apartheid era.So begin the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow escapes, mishaps andilluminations of a guitar-toting troubadour in his roles as young beat poet,law student, single father, relief worker in India and recording star inBrazil. Cleves's page turning memoir is no simple music biography, but ratherthe travel story of an artist's quest for tarab: a place where musicand poetry bestow true bliss upon the lucky one. It's by turns philosophical,funny, adventurous and insightful.

Fullyrevised and expanded, this new edition of Tarabis a must read for all lovers of travel literature.