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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel [Paperback]

Rolf Potts (Author)
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Release Date: Dec 24 2002
Vagabonding is about 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. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:

• financing your travel time
• determining your destination
• adjusting to life on the road
• working and volunteering overseas
• handling travel adversity
• re-assimilating back into ordinary life

Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community’s hub at www.vagabonding.net.

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Veteran vagabond Potts regales readers with his mantra: anyone with an adventurous spirit can achieve the feat of taking extended time off from work to experience the world. In 11 short chapters that follow the same structure, Potts tells how to negotiate time off from work, prepare for travel, and get the most out of your time on the road. Each chapter contains a profile of a famous proponent of vagabonding (e.g., Thoreau, Annie Dillard), quotes from everyday people with extensive travel experience, and a tip sheet of print and online sources for practical travel advice on topics such as airline tickets and accommodations as well as safety concerns. Alternately warning readers about using drugs in foreign countries and entertaining them with anecdotes from exotic ports of call, Potts gives a thorough recounting of his outlook on traveling. This book seems squarely aimed at twenty- and thirtysomethings; anyone with decidedly nonvagabond accoutrements (e.g., children or career ambition) might be more skeptical of Potts' philosophy. For those with a bad case of wanderlust. Joanne Wilkinson
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“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.”
—Tim Cahill, author of Hold the Enlightenment

“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.”
—Jeffrey Tayler, author of Glory in the Camel’s Eye, Facing the Congo, and Siberian Dawn

“Vagabonding brings to inspiring life both the hows and the whys of life on the road.”
—Don George, global travel editor, Lonely Planet Publications

“Digging into Rolf Potts, one encounters real issues about travel, issues that most other travel writers overlook, while still having a good time.”
—Joe Cummings, author of Lonely Planet Thailand, Lonely Planet Bangkok,
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4.1 out of 5 stars
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars useless.... Jun 24 2008
By daniel gautreau
Format:Paperback
I've travelled a little over the years so I was interested in this book for bigger & better adventures. What a joke! This book is written for people who've never used public transit! Incredibly simplistic. Should you want to go on an adventure & have any questions; google it! Save your money & put it towards your adventure.

Sincerely,
Daniel Gautreau
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Grail Nov 6 2003
By Stuart Mathieson
Format:Paperback
Anyone who has ever thought about travelling, this book will make you go! Anyone who has ever been travelling, this book will make you want to go again and anyone who is travelling whilst reading this, this book will make you that bit more adventurous when ordering food in a cafe where a squat toilet is another eating area! It's definitely a case of, if he can do it then so can I!

Of course if your not a travelling type then the book will mean as much to you as a tin of baked beans to a kipper, but for those who yearn for life as one of the wandering nomads of this world, this book will seem like the travel bible in as much as it suggests a life less ordinary!

This book is about working to live and not living to work!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Been There. Done That. . . Jan 29 2003
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This is an earnest if somewhat dreamy primer on the subject of extended long term independent travel. It most closely resembles, in both spirit and content, Ed Buryn's classic sixties book Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa but without that author's now dated "groovy" countercultural musings. Potts indeed graciously acknowledges Buryn's contribution (unlike the shamefully disingenuous Rick Steves.)

The practical advice Potts offers is solid but also a bit sketchy. For the nitty-gritty of travel technique and practicalities I far prefer a book like Rob Sangster's The Traveler's Toolkit. Still, Potts does provide a very thorough listing of (mostly web-based) resources that will do much to fill in the gaps.

In the more contemplative sections on traveling "vagabond"-style, Potts writing is charming and mercifully free of the tendentious ideological dross that often characterizes writing about travels to what were once called "Third World" destinations. My special congrats to him for gently mocking the "traveler/tourist" dichotomy for the silly supercilious parlor games it often engenders.

Still, there is a somewhat moony, disembodied feeling to the book. Instead of all the gaseous quotations from the famous and unfamous (used as filler) I would have appreciated some more attention to hazards, dangers, and risks. These can be substantial: from wild auto-rickshaw drivers to leaky, overcrowded boats, from rabid animals to exotic diseases, and (last but not least) from rickety to downright pathological political regimes. The world can be a wild, wonderful place but it can also provide a cornucopia of nightmares for the ill-prepared and underinformed. Potts does his aspiring vagabonders a serious disservice by not leveling with them about the seamy and potentially hazardous underside of "shoestring" travel in exotic lands.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring
Loved this book! Super easy read but filled with lots of inspiration for those who are trying to incorporate travel into their lives in a long term and meaningful way. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Adrienne
1.0 out of 5 stars Useless and boring
Do not be fooled by a title, cover page, and sale ranking. This book quotes other and better books. There are more inspiring books out there. Read more
Published on Dec 10 2010 by Adventurer
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent look at some of the less-discussed aspects of travelling
Fantastic book. I wish I read it before I went backpacking for a year. I definitely would have gotten more out my trip. Don't read this for a guide to the best museums in Paris. Read more
Published on Feb 4 2010 by Curtis Palmer
1.0 out of 5 stars Deceiving...
One thing this book taught me was to not trust reviews. I don't understand how this book got thirteen 5-star reviews, friends of author perhaps? Read more
Published on July 22 2008 by JM
4.0 out of 5 stars How to walk the earth
This book offers those of us the information that we need to trek the earth. The tips and small bits of info that Potts offers up are amazing and applicable if you are a serious... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2006 by Thaddeus & Annie
5.0 out of 5 stars Got me back on the road!
Vagabonding provided me with the inspiration to get back out on the road, with a world of opportunity to see new places and take part in different cultures. Read more
Published on Feb 22 2006 by Mark Macisaac
1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money For Your Trip
There is no doubt that Potts has had some great experiences; it would have been nice if he would have shared them. Read more
Published on Mar 13 2004 by Seachranaiche
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best Travel Book of the Year!
Potts, a Contributing Writer to National Geographic Traveler offers his insights and personal philosophy of world travel. Read more
Published on Oct 10 2003 by Eric Dondero, Author, Worldwide Phrase Book
5.0 out of 5 stars A great travel book for hard-core long-term travellers
Rolf definitely knows his stuff.

Unlike other travel guides that have hundreds and hundreds of unnecessary pages that you'll never read, Rolf sticks right to the point and tells... Read more

Published on Sep 18 2003 by Jason
5.0 out of 5 stars Philosophy Class Meets the Road
This book is essentially about the thought process behind taking time off from your regular life to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Read more
Published on Sep 18 2003 by Tim Leffel
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