An extraordinary look at the contents of a young man's soul.

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	• The Journey Is the Destination Dan Eldon, Kathy Eldon Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Truly a heartbreaking and humbling experience.

This book is not just the random publication of a few arbitrary journal pages. This book is the culmination of a young man's short life and a minor insight into the wonderful and brilliant experiences he was documenting for himself. These personal memories and artworks are an honor for those of us who did not know him to be able to share, and remark at the tragic and unnecessary loss of Dan Eldon and those who died with him. Imagine what Dan Eldon could have continued to produce as an artist, as a photographer...as the talented and devoted individual changing the world. It is always in death that life becomes so valued; whether or not you liked this book, at least take away from it the reasons and purposes that Dan Eldon believed in, the people he knew and the lives he helped change. He has contributed more to the world than any of us ever will.

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A MUST!

I highly recommend this book. It is an incredible assembly of photos, clippings, drawings, and artifacts from the travels of Dan Eldon. It makes you wonder what this young man would have grown to become if it wasn't for his early death. The images are simple, complex, uplifting and morbid. A very moving book from a very talent artist.

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An extraordinary look at the contents of a young man's soul.

It is a privilege to turn the pages of The Journey Is The Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon. As a reader, one bears witness to an incredible artist and remarkable young man. Eldon, whose dance on this mortal coil was hastened by a bloodthirsty mob in Somalia five years ago, chronicled his life in 17 journals since the age of 14. But it would be his last journal, found with other belongings in a sack discovered following his death that would lead to this incredible tome produced by Chronicle Books of San Francisco, California. His own death would give us the freedom to see inside his life, inside his journals where his ability to place his adventures on the page is as riveting as any assemblage artist that comes to mind. This is alchemy of William Burroughs, and Joseph Cornwell, This is the content of a young man's head, faced with the mortality of children, of a nation, and ultimately, himself. On July 12, 1993, United Nations troops bombed a house it believed was home to Somalia warlord, General Mohammed Aidid. Eldon, then 22 and working as a stringer for Reuters, and three fellow journalists were sent to the scene to record the devastation. Instead, when they arrived, Eldon and the three other journalists were confronted by an angry mob. The crowd stoned Eldon and his friends to death. The Journey Is The Destination contains page after page of astounding photographs, snippets of text, advertisements, paint and paste assembled together to lend texture to a land of starvation, banality and beauty that confronted Eldon as photojournalist, artist and young man. Lovingly edited by his mother, Kathy, The Journey contains material from all 17 of Eldon's journals. At every juncture one can tell he poured his life into the journals. It's not always high art. Sometimes one may blush for Eldon's obvious youth exuberance gone awry. But on whole we are dealing with honesty. Exquisite. Intelligent. Raw. Those are just a few words to describe the contents of this most private exhibit. In the end, the book allows us to step as close as one could safely step towards the precipice, without falling over. It gives a reader Eldon's undivided attention. It gives us all his humility and his hope for a world cured, fed and without turmoil. Lofty goals, sure, but this book reminds us it's all possible, because we can conceive it. Dan Eldon did.

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The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

If you are expecting an extensive journal of his life adventures, you will be disappointed, as I was somewhat. It is more a work of art, a collage or scrapbook of several trips. His writing and handwritten notes are few and short. But, for me, it instantly became an idea of one more way I can remember my 17 year old daughter who died this past August. I had already started putting scrapbooks together, so this book gave me more creative ways to do it! My Juli had also written in a few journals, and now I see a creative way to put pieces of them together as a story of her life with photos, her art work and some memorabilia. Yes, a collage book is developing at my house, but without the expense of publishing it! Creative memories can mean more lasting memories! Thanks for the idea Kathy Eldon!

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Not bad, but Peter Beard did it first.

Dan Eldon's diaries are interesting, and his mother is to be commended for publicizing his work. However, one hopes the photographer/author/artist/adventurer Peter Beard is receiving royalties from this book, since Eldon's diaries are pale imitations of the diaries Beard has been making for decades.

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