The fascinating World's Bounty was inspired by the Russian classic The Hunting Sketches. Like Ivan Turgenev's acclaimed stories, these sketches are fictional, though they draw from the people and places author Douglas Pollock McCloud encountered in his travels as a young man during the 1960s.
World's Bounty includes eleven short literary stories-each filled with conversations in which individuals from all walks of life express their views on love, war, health, faith, and ordinary living.
One anecdote takes you to a sidewalk café in Paris, while another tells a tale of survival and belief through suffering in Peru. You'll meet a soldier on a train and a surgeon in the Austrian Alps. And you'll encounter love that cannot be detained on the border between Libya and Egypt.
Some stories trace the never-ending conflicts affecting humanity as played out on the beaches of Acapulco and the jungles of the Amazon Basin. Others, taking place on Mount Olympus; in Madurai, India; and on a series of islands across the seas, have a mystical tone.
Each narrative is a philosophical reckoning. Together, they illuminate the world's vast bounty of people, places, and ideas.
About the Author: Douglas Pollock McCloud wrote the stories in his book World's Bounty based on his experiences traveling, working, and living abroad in the 1960s between obtaining a BA from Harvard and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Though the stories take place abroad, World's Bounty was written for his native land, the United States. He wrote most of the eleven stories in 1972. Forty-four years later, in 2016, he decided to publish them.
McCloud is now a financial consultant living in Belleair Beach, Florida.
