Having set off alone from his hometown Adelaide, Australia, to explore the world at the age of 22, Ron Dearing has a life-changing adventure and returns to Australia bitten by the travel bug. For the rest of his life, he then travels overseas at every opportunity.

In The Experiences of a World Traveller, Ron shares a series of anecdotes from the countries he visited, including his first round-the-world trip and many subsequent trips in settings such as the Amazon jungle, the Nepalese Himalayas, Glacier Bay in Alaska, the Greek Islands, the Sahara Desert, and many more places. He writes of the people, the customs, the happenings, and the adventures he experienced. The stories are amusing, light-hearted, dramatic, frightening, of lessons learnt, interesting, bizarre, and, in some cases, amazing.