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Many years ago as a younger man, I spent two years circumnavigating the globe primarily by sea, bus, and train. This around-the-world travel odyssey indellibly shaped the years to follow. As our world has become increasingly interdependent and Americans more aware of our connections to peoples the world over, the journey has taken on a greater significance.
A Vagabond World speaks to the universal themes surrounding travel and the personal transformations that greet one on the road each day. As an exploration of the poignance, import, and changing dynamic of the long-term travel experience, this solo journey around the globe is a rite of passage that turns the outward experience inward so as to examine ourselves and our place in the world. The journey becomes a guidepost to a greater world. Once we buy the ticket, all of our life is transformed.
E-book contains 110 photographs. Web gallery provided for print edition.
* 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 |
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