Werner Herzog was a celebrated German director who made films on all six continents, a traveler, diarist, poet, and a brilliant independent thinker. His biography would fill seven people—in his memoirs, he recounts his first insights, adventures around the world, taming the frenetic Klaus Kinski, ecstatic truth, and the difficult path to creative autonomy. Herzog descended into caves, filmed under Antarctic ice, and ventured into deserts and high-altitude glaciers. 'Every Man for Himself, and God Against All' is a book in which the author travels through time from his post-war childhood to the present day, peering into both prehistory and the distant future.