

There's nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life--from six weeks to four months to two years--to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

Five years after their release from Lebanon, an Irish teacher and a English journalist undertake a journey they had envisioned in their cell. When they finally set foot in Chile, they realise that the reality is very different from what they had imagined but are ready for the unknown...

From it source, high in the Tibet mountains, to Vietnam, where it discharges its water into the South China Sea, the Mekong changes name and identity several times. E. Gargan, left behind his work as a journalist and embarked fifteen years of experience of Asia onto a boat with a capricious engine..

For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a spectacular journey of contrasts, drama and beauty. From head-hunters in Borneo to a meal of maggots in Mexico, his route takes him to some of the most politically volatile and physically demanding places on Earth.