Travelogue Forty Years Filming The World [Paperback]

A memoir by Doug Jones, one of America's best-known travel film producers.

This is the story of a by-gone era of entertainment. Before cable television, and Internet streaming, people packed auditoriums to learn about places where they were planning to travel and to relive memories of places where they had been. At its peak there were over five thousand live-lecture travelogue series in the United States and Doug Jones was one of the stars. He narrated his motion picture films live from the stage. He gave over six thousand travelogue lectures and he traveled between his shows by piloting his own plane, a twin Cessna. He made sixty coast-to-coast flights logging over three thousand hours in the air.

Growing up in Kansas City he traveled the world. His father was an engine inspector for Trans World Airlines. College trips took him to Bangkok, Bombay, London, Cairo, Honolulu, Paris, Hong Kong; all the destinations TWA flew. He put himself through university playing banjo in Kansas City jazz clubs.

He shot film in sixty-eight countries, went around the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2, and traveled on every form of transportation. His film The Great Canadian Train Ride drew sell-out crowds in auditoriums and theaters and when released on home video sold over 1,000,000 copies.

His story covers an array of observations about everything from travel to Broadway, aviation to relationships, and the colorful people he has known.

It is told with honesty and humor: a life well lived.