John Michael Pocock

The partly true story of a passionate sailor and corporate executive -- a real "Flying Dutchman" who struggled to escape the Hong Kong corporate treadmill, and finally broke free of the world's tightest golden handcuffs to follow his bliss, sailing the ocean.Harper John (aka John Michael Pocock) wrote the song that inspired this story which provides a glimpse of a man living his dream.Our old colleague and good friend in Hong Kong, Tom Tsui, provided the interior photographs that beautifully illustrate the story.

Never before published images of Cambodia seen through lens and mind. As for the suitcase, it has no pretension, no markings, no grandeur as is right for such a vessel. Yet it has carried within a world of worlds forgotten and promised. Its past cannot be comprehended, its future contemplated. It is what it is: what it has always been; what we hold to hold us as a chattel or a part of a dreamers fantasy. As for the young American he knows not. His vessel is empty. The Canadian has the burden ... in his mind ... in the Cambodian mindfield. This I can tell you and no more.