Layman is joined by Richard Druitt to discuss his semi-autobiographical novel, Looking for the Colonel.  The book is the third in a trilogy based on Druitt's experiences with ayahuasceros in Peru and Puerto Rico, and blends fantasy and reality in its telling of two intertwined stories:  a fictionalized account of Colonel Percy Fawcett's search for a lost city in the Amazon, and his subsequent, mysterious disappearance; and a search fifty years later to find out what became of him.  The book is dedicated to Layman's mother.  Richard Druitt was born in Devon, England, but since 1975 has been traveling the world. He has variously lived in New Mexico, Australia and Peru and for 30 years has resided in the Caribbean on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.  He has worked on a wide range of projects and jobs that include journalism, community work, ranch manager, ship's mate, tropical forestry plantation manager, acupuncturist, massage therapist, disaster inspector, and teacher. In short, he has the ideal background for a writer, something he is now settling into aided by his extensive journals and note books. He writes a family diary blog that can be accessed at searchingfornuggets.blogspot.com. To date, he has published the Ayahuasca Trilogy: 'On Yaje Nights' (visionary poems & visions); 'The Dark Silence' (an ayahuasca memoir); and 'Looking For The Colonel' (a novel); and several books of poetry: 'Condensed Green Essence of Seven Firs' (Poems of yearning and place, set on Bodmin Moor); and 'Song of This Place' (poems & songs celebrating 30 years in Puerto Rico). His most recent book, released in January 2021 in both kindle and paperback, is 'Professor Ableweather,' a story of animal songs for the young and young at heart. It is his first children's book

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