This book is about Linder's life of prospecting for mineral deposits in some of the wildest and remote places on Earth.

The story based on Linder's diary, tell about commuting to work by canoe and snowshoe in northern Canada and by helicopter in Alaska; following wombat trails in the rainforest of Tasmania; bear encounters in the Yukon; bush plane crashes in British Columbia; prospecting in the Mojave Desert of California; and going where no man had gone before in Antarctica.

You will learn about prospecting and general exploration, and the detailed history of two major discoveries that Linder made as a consulting geologist. In 1968 he discovered the still-unmined giant copper-molybdenum deposit in Schaft Creek, British Columbia. In 1986 he discovered the world-class Castle Mountain gold deposit in the Mojave Desert.

This latter find was the culmination of a life in exploration wherein he achieved the goal of every exploration geologist: to discover a major mineral deposit and stay with it all the way to production. The Castle Mountain mine produced more than 1,250,000 ounces of gold between 1992 and 2001.