Many years ago as a younger man, I spent two years circumnavigating the globe by air, sea, bus, and train. This around-the-world travel odyssey has indellibly shaped the years since. As our world becomes increasingly interdependent and Americans become acutely aware of our connections to people's the world over, the significance of this tale only increases. The book A Vagabond World speaks to the universal themes surrounding travel and the personal transformations that greet those on the road each day.
* Selected sections available to read online. See below.
.Sample Chapters:
| Foreword | viii* |
| Prologue: A Wisp of Smoke | 1* |
| Angels | 75* |
| Off The Page | 122* |
Table Of Contents:
| Foreword | viii* |
| Prologue: A Wisp of Smoke | 1* |
| I: Bewitched | |
| The Drama | 8 |
| The Coup | 11 |
| The Breech | 15 |
| Fellow Travelers | 18 |
| The Father of the Forest | 21 |
| Men and Boys | 23 |
| Heads | 25 |
| Farewells | 28 |
| Into the Void | 32 |
| II: Shanghaied | |
| Part Way There | 36 |
| Cattle and Sheep | 44 |
| Mark | 50 |
| The Station | 53 |
| Wilpena | 58 |
| No Troubles | 61 |
| III: Latitude and Bearing | |
| Kupang | 64 |
| Emma | 68 |
| Gotong Royong | 72 |
| Angels | 75* |
| Timor Timur (East Timor) | 80 |
| TV Dreams | 83 |
| Vanity of Distance | 88 |
| Two Worlds | 91 |
| Moni | 93 |
| Cheeseburgers | 95 |
| Dragons | 97 |
| A Place On The Food Chain | 103 |
| The Vomit Express | 107 |
| Artists | 110 |
| The Hungry Tigers | 114 |
| To The Airport | 119 |
| IV: Every Place in One Place | |
| Off The Page | 122* |
| The J-People | 127 |
| Divisions | 131 |
| Happy Birthday | 135 |
| Photo Prohibited | 137 |
| Small Worlds | 139 |
| The Outsiders | 148 |
| No Sleeping | 154 |
| Perfection | 156 |
| Gliding Into Night | 158 |
| The Shanti | 160 |
| V: Crab Art | |
| The Traveler's Prerogative | 168 |
| A Cheap Way To Be Rich | 173 |
| Trapped | 178 |
| Cowboys and Sand Crabs | 187 |
| VI: Borders | |
| Dreamers | 192 |
| The Regiment | 196 |
| Cracking Nuts | 200 |
| The Dissidents | 204 |
| The Proletariat | 208 |
| The Pursuit | 211 |
| Students | 214 |
| VII: The Foreign and The Familiar | |
| The Time Warp | 222 |
| The Chestnut of Truth | 226 |
| The World's Best Hitch | 228 |
| Erika | 230 |
| The Colonel | 234 |
| Earning It | 238 |
| When Cauliflower Equals Clubs | 241 |
| It's Own Character | 246 |
| Carried Away | 250 |
| Skinner | 255 |
| The Foreign and the Familiar | 259 |
| Epilogue: The Good Fight | 264 |
| Acknowledgements | 267 |
Photography
Supplementing the text-only edition of this book, is a web site of selected photography from this journey. A sampling:
