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ABOUT THE BOOK

It’s been said that life is what happens when you’re expecting something else. Despite the downside potential that unanticipated events offer, life is often truly enriched by the happenings that result from a surprise turn in the road. In Company of Stone, Moore gives us an engaging and vivid account of two such dramatic departures from what any reasonable person who finds himself hiking a lonely road in bad weather might ever expect.

Unable to continue his lone tour of in the rugged Scottish highlands due to an aggravation of wounds recently received in Vietnam, the author flees a freezing rainstorm by seeking shelter in a remote monastery. His sensitive, endearing, and humorous account of what became a protracted stay with the brotherhood serves as a lasting vote of confidence in blind chance and the best of human nature.

His accidental pilgrimage continues after overhearing a conversation in a village pub, and he is steered to Canada, where he is hired as a rock drill operator in a large industrial gold mine. The dangers he encounters in that underground world, in the company of his nameless fellow miners, challenge both his endurance and his sense of self-worth. But it is his vivid description of the unusual characters he encountered there that provides these anonymous and extravagant personalities with a fluent, vitalized, and admirable legacy. In the absence of these pages, no one would ever know these provocative, frightening, funny, and lost men had ever existed. Yet their legacy lives on in every ounce of gold worn every day.

Company of Stone is a thought provoking memoir into the human psyche that will leave you torn between the call to adventure that lives at the heart of human nature and the safe embrace of the easy chair that affords the luxury of living vicariously those perils which await the unwary.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Rixey Moore is a veteran actor for television (Falcon Crest; One Life to Live; The Young and The Restless; The Bold and, The Beautiful), feature films (Clear and Present Danger; A Home of Our Own; and, Executive Decision) and has been the on-camera announcer in some 500 network commercials. He competed internationally for several years in the 1980s on the US Bobsled team, served as boat tune-up crew and sail advisor for the America's Cup races in the '70s and has flown his Beech Bonanza across the US twenty-three times. John can be seen from time to time on The History Channel being interviewed on the crop circle phenomenon and on the subject of UFO's. An amateur historian, he enjoys walking ancient sites in Europe and maintains an extensive collection of antique books and household displays of medieval weapons.

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