Douglas Kirkland joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and worked for Life Magazine during the golden age of 1960s-1970s photojournalism. Among his assignments were international features as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing such luminaries as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich. Through the years, Kirkland has worked on the sets of hundreds of motion pictures. His fine arts photography has been exhibited all over the world, and is in the permanent collections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, the Smithsonian, and the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. A sought-after lecturer, Kirkland has received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American S.O.C., Photographer of the Year from the PMA, a Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Canada. When not traveling the globe on assignment, he lives in the Hollywood Hills with his wife and business partner Françoise.

• Contents: On Becoming a Globetrotter; Salad Days; Tips for the Flying Class; Long Iceland Days; Scotland Discovery; Why I love Terminal 5 at Heathrow; For the Love of Paris; Viva Italia!; The Art of the Business Side Trip; Stranded: Part 1 - Roaming Rome; Baltic Inspiration; Stranded: Part 2 - Reaching New Heights in Africa; I'll Always Have Namibia; You Can Travel, or You Can Stay at Home; The Wonders of Nepal; A Lesson Learned in Bhutan; If You Like It, Buy It; The Lure of Southeast Asia; Money Talks in Many Languages; Shanghai: The City of the Future; The Snowy Mountains of Australia; The Zen of the Long-Haul Flight; Antarctica and the Arctic Circle; Take Me to Fiji; Running through Buenos Aires; Mendoza, A Wine Lover's Heaven; Excuse Me, Have You Seen Indiana Jones? Merry Christmas from the Atacama; The Land of the Equator; Solving the New Year's Eve Dilemma; There Are Those Places That We Love, and Then There Are Those...; Go West, My Friends; The Santa Fe Connection; W hat to Do if You Leave Something on a Plane; Hamptons Simple; Of Course You Should Come to New York; Epilogue to the Globetrotter Diaries; The A to Z of Globetrotting; Tips from World-Class Globetrotters

"Douglas Kirkland: Hollywood's favourite photographer." - The Telegraph; "The greatest international stars of movies, art and music have posed for him, from Mick Jagger to Sophia Loren, from Coco Chanel to Marlene Dietrich, from Man Ray to Andy Warhol. His concentration on the subject and the relationship that he establishes with the personalities he photographs make his shots unique for their spontaneity." - Vogue Italia; "Douglas Kirkland has few peers." - The New York Times