The book, the movie and now the musical about the 'Soldier of Orange', has been a best seller, award-winning Golden Globe motion picture, and presently the musical in Holland breaking all records for a 6-year run. But- who was the man behind this phenomenon? What made him the person he became? From his birth in Java to his death in Hawaii, this memoir answers these questions in his last book 'Win A Few'. An idyllic childhood in Soerabaya, in The Dutch East Indies... learning the culture and spending hours in a banyan tree, made an indelible impression on this child of the Netherlands. Always curious, he broke the usual boundaries of his generation to follow his own path. Originally printed in hard cover titled 'In Pursuit of Life. and 'Op 'Jacht near het Leven' in Dutch.