Whilst recovering from a serious operation in the mountains near Geneva, Jean Mohr realized that he had come close to the edge of his own existence. He was then inspired to revisit places that had struck him as being at the edge of the world.

In 1996, the photographer Jean mohr was convalescing from a serious operation in the mountains near Geneva known locally as "the End of the World". Having just come close to the very edge or end of his own existence, the idea came to Mohr to revisit the places that in the past had struck him as being truly on the edge - remote as to common experience or geographical location, or both. This book is a record of Mohr's journey to such places as Romania, Karachi, Manilla, Pireas, Algeria, Lapland and Nicaragua. It illuminates his ongoing concern with humanitarian issues as well as his bemused observations regarding clashes between international policy and local politics and personalities, between media hype and traditional magic. John Berger provides a portrait of Mohr and sheds light on his commitment to a particular kind of engaged photography and the nature of their long-standing collaboration.