A skilled aviator and small boat sailor, here tells the story of his search to identify and photograph from the air the places where Ulysses touched on his way home from Troy. The book's primary contribution is pleasure, but it also provides new findings, new hypotheses, archaeological, linguistic, personal, not the least startling an identification of Homer's home.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter I. Notes on the World of Ulysses : Tablets and Takeoff ; Gods and Men ; Elements and Ships ; Women and Wealth -- Chapter II. Through the Curtain : Troy, Tenedos, and Ismaros (Izmir and the Cyclades) ; Malea and the Lotus-eaters (The Submerged Port of the Phileni) ; The Cyclops (Mallorca) ; Aiolos and the Sight of Home (Minorca) -- Chapter III. The Wrath of the Gods : The Laistrygones' Telepylos (Bonifacio) Circe's Aiaia (Ischia) ; Hades (The Caverns of Tangiers) ; Skylla, Charybdis, and the Trials (Stromboli, Lipari, and Messina) -- Chapter IV. Reprieve, Temptation, and Revenge : Kalypso's Ogygia and East (Malta) ; Navsikaa's Scheria (Cyprus) ; Ithaka (still Ithaka) -- Chapter V. The Homeric Question : Ulysses' Stars and Homer's Cyprus.