The Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen had something important for all to hear, particularly the generations of young people who were confronted with a changing and often confusing world. It was a message of hope, of peace, of excitement, and of challenge that penetrated the hearts and minds of us all, told in a language the world could intimately understand, interpreted through music and song.
       Those early days of Up with People took them from the exuberance of the Super Bowl, through the closed thresholds of China, the unrest in Africa, the strife in Northern Ireland, and from these four adventurers came the words of songs such as “Where the Roads Come Together,” “Give the Children Back Their Childhood,” and the challenge from the captain in “Moon Rider” “…to cross the next frontier.” And we can never forget the inspiration from “Up, up with people.”
       After I returned from my voyage to the moon on Apollo 17, I often described my impressions of seeing the earth from a quarter million miles away as a world without any borders and without any fighting. Steve, Paul, Ralph, and Herb were in the forefront of those who dedicated their lives to the hope of making that vision a reality. This book tells their story in dramatic detail, from Hollywood to the dusty roads of India, revolution in the Congo, the struggle for independence in Cyprus and beyond.
       This is a story that resonates today with young and old who are looking for a way to make a meaningful contribution to world peace. It is real-life experience from the hearts and souls of the Colwell Brothers and Allen—the places they’ve been, the people they’ve met, and the memories indelibly etched in their minds—and it’s as relevant today as it was in the twentieth century.
       May this story be heard around the world!

Captain Eugene A. Cernan, US Navy Retired
Apollo 17 commander and author of The Last Man on the Moon