Few books capture loss and redemption as stunningly as The Journey Is the Destination......The more you look, the more you will remember something you might have forgotten, something akin to a tiff in an old song, liner notes to the album, something punkish, something irreverent and relevant at the same time.

He had traveled four continents, led expeditions across Africa, worked as a graphic designer for a New York magazine, published a book, and made a short film. He knew women; knew art; knew war. And privately, he had documented and transformed it all in his journals: seventeen mesmerizing notebooks of photographs, words,paint, ink, and oddments collected in the course of his travels. Three-dimensional creations, many pages include panels, folds, and flaps; experiences and thoughts amassed layer upon layer. The Journey Is the Destination reproduces a selection of pages from the journals, the legacy of a young artist killed while the full scope of his creative powers were just beginning to be known to himself and others.

Already the inspiration for the documentary on war correspondents called Dying to Tel1 the Story,created by Dan's sister, Amy Eldon, and airedon TBS Superstation, Dan's story will also be told in a feature film from Columbia Pictures.Adventurer, artist, relief worker, and journalist,Dan Eldon sets an admirable example of how to be young, human, and alive. The Journey Is the Destination is a book of art and a young man's life, but mostly it is a book about the art of life.