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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel (平装)
by Rolf Potts
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World travel, Exploration, Adventure, Outdoors |
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MSL Pointer Review:
A complete breath of fresh air and an inspiring book on travel philosophy. Vagabonding is a way of thinking, of living, of traveling, of interacting with the outside world. Don't you agree?
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Tim Cahill, author of Hold the Enlightenment, USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Potts wants us to wander, to explore, to embrace the unknown, and, finally, to take our own damn
time about it. I think this is the most sensible book of travel-related advice ever written.
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Jeffrey Tayler, author of Glory in the Camel’s Eye, Facing the Congo, and Siberian Dawn, USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Rolf Potts has produced an engaging book that does what few, if any, other travel guides do: make readers aware of how many possibilities vagabonding offers them to enhance their lives, and how accessible the experience of long-term travel really is.
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Don George, global travel editor, Lonely Planet Publications, USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Vagabonding brings to inspiring life both the hows and the whys of life on the road.
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Joe Cummings, author of Lonely Planet Thailand, Lonely Planet Bangkok, USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Digging into Rolf Potts, one encounters real issues about travel, issues that most other travel writers overlook, while still having a good time. |
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William Jenkins (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Rolf Potts' book is not only a practical guide to spending extended periods in foreign cultures, but a compendium of the best travel writing, recent and classic. It gives practical advice, profiles of travelers of note and a philosophical grounding for leaving home, not only physically but in your head.
This is not a book for those who plan to hang on to the familiar by bringing a discman with favorite CDs, looking for places to catch CNN and moving from internet cafe to American Express poste restante counter. It is for the traveler who is willing to cut loose from his moorings and dive headlong into a culture.
Rolf Potts has a sparkling sense of humor and a truly staggering familiarity with travel writing past and present. He presents wonderful excerpts from great writing and from the experiences of everyday vagabonders. I am truly impressed with his command of literary works dealing with travel. The book can be read in one sitting but should be savored at leisure over a modest Hungarian white or some South African water buffaly jerky. |
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T. Davis (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-09 00:00>
Allan de Botten writes in his Art of Travel, "If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness... perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardor and paradoxes--than our travels... " Today's contemporary traveler is met with a particular dilemma: How to achieve this quest for happiness through personal involvement in a multi-cultural society amid today's great forces of commercial globalism. Bombarded by mass culture's mediated faashioning of the world and its national or commercial interests at heart, how does one experience the world through travel without feeling guiltily obediant towards these forces? Mr. Potts offers a way to redefine today's quest for an authentic, individualized travel experience using an obscure term often not associated with the industry of travel and tourism: Vagabonding.
I particulary like his redefining of the word: n. 1)The act of leaving behind the orderly world to travel independently for an extended period of time. 2) A privately meaningful manner of travel that emphacizes creativity, adventure, awareness, simplicity, discovery, independence, realism, good humor, and the growth of the spirit. 3) A deliberate way of living that makes the freedom to travel possible. Rolf Potts' "guide" encourages travelers and tourists alike to seek their own experiences at home or abroad in accordance to personal truths, usefulness to the individual, and creative solututions. His book's charge demands declaring independence from a "media culture, which tends to paint our understanding of the world into reductive, uniform colors." Potts' colorful approach to this topic certainly gets the creative juices flowing beyond what the guidebooks and brochures and travel bureaus promote.
This book should be on the shelf of anyone who loves to travel, enjoys reading about travel, or simply day-dreams about the possiblities of escaping for a stint of globe-trotting. Who knows, after reading this book, those dreams might become a reality - ask the variety of individuals from high school graduates to professional career people to whom I've recommended Mr. Potts's book and website. |
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