Life's Heart Eternal

De: Julian Bound

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Life’s Heart Eternal a Novel by Julian Bound

‘My name is Franc Barbour. I was born on the 20th July 1845 in the town of Saumur, deep in the heart of the Loire Valley, France. The truth of the matter is I simply never died.’

When a young nurse reads these opening words in an old leather bound journal given to her by a stranger she begins to uncover the story of one man’s journey through the centuries.

She discovers how in Franc’s endless years he loses and is reunited with those closest to him again and again as they are reincarnated in different bodies. Be it his soulmate, brothers, friends or enemies, each hold a lesson for Franc to how our actions in every lifetime hold consequences in the next.

In Franc’s travels across the world as a photographer to a backdrop of history’s conflicts and wars, an encounter with those reincarnated from his past is never far away.

‘For who has never wondered what it would be like to live forever?’


About The Author
Born in England, Julian is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. His photographic work has been featured on the BBC news, in the international press and is contributing photographer for National Geographic.

His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region.

His photography work includes documenting Myanmar’s Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and Thailand’s political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok.

His other projects include the road working gypsies of Rajasthan, India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the riverside squatter slums of Yogyakarta and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia.

Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Foundation.

Having extensively photographed the Tibetan refugees of Nepal and India, Julian has had an audience with The 14th Dalai Lama where he presented His Holiness with ‘The Middle Way: Seven Buddhist Countries in Seven Months’ one of his photography books documenting Buddhism throughout Asia and South East Asia.

With published documentary photography books Julian is also the author of twelve novels including Subway of Light, Life’s Heart Eternal, The Geisha and The Monk, By Way of The Sea and All Roads.