Vagabonding an Uncommon Guide to the Art of Longterm Travel by Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts is a travel author as well as a bit of a backpacker guru and his book distils his experiences in, exactly as the title suggests, an uncommon guide to long-term travel. The operative word here is uncommon, as Vagabonding is not really a guide equally we know them, more of a pep-talk combined with a resource list.
| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Fine art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts | |
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| Category: Travel | |
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| Reviewer: Magda Healey | |
| Summary: An extremely inspirational if occasionally annoying starting point for all those who contemplate - but might be a bit agape of - a stint of long-term, low-resources travel. | |
| Buy? Maybe | Infringe? Yes |
| Pages: 224 | Date: January 2003 |
| Publisher: Villard Books | |
| ISBN: 978-0812992182 | |
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Potts concentrates on the philosophy and attitudes, showing not so much how to do it (it being the long-term travel or vagabonding of the championship) only rather that it is possible.
The volume is divided into several chapters: grooming (mostly mental), planning, funding, packing and dealing with experiences on the route (with a focus on attitudes). Each affiliate provides a general inspirational essay, every bit well equally a selection of more practical tips, and a list of farther resource. The chapters are interspersed with vagabonding profiles of travellers former and new (generally quondam), vagabonding voices young and onetime (mostly young) and masses of quotations (with a particular penchant for Whitman, Thoreau and holy texts of the Far East).
If it all sounds a piffling bit too preachy and patronising in the most infuriatingly American way, don't give up on Potts even so: despite the fact that information technology's easy to course such a first impression, Vagabonding is actually meliorate than it appears on the start glance.
Yeah, it does preach a particular philosophy: minimalist attitude to cloth possessions and comforts, an individualistic, experiential approach to travel, a typically non-judgemental Western relativism regarding the values of other cultures. Merely considering that the book is conspicuously written for an American market place, all that is probably needed. In one case you get used to the cool dude travelling the Dharma road fashion, you will find a lot of well-grounded common sense every bit well as Potts' 18-carat power to inspire conviction and conventionalities in the possibility of the vagabonding venture.
The practical tips are basic, to the point of stating the obvious, and then will be mainly of use only to those who have little experience of truly contained travel.
The resource lists are much more useful, simply more so to those that are based in the U.s. or Canada; the book has been written for an American marketplace and thus but presents very few UK or European resources (e.g. VSO doesn't get mentioned in the department on volunteering and Ryanair doesn't go a mention in the cheap air travel affiliate).
Potts recognises the fact that non all vagabonders are single under-xxx-year-olds and even has a footling sub-section on senior vagabonding and travel with children. However, in reality, a lot of his advice nonetheless generally applies to single and childless travellers. He deals at length with work-related problems: how to organise your work life for travel, resigning from work without burning bridges and taking sabbaticals. He says zero virtually travelling as a couple (nor about leaving your partner or spouse behind) and very little about dealing with practical and emotional aspects of other family commitments. The listing of resources for travelling with children is, equally far every bit I checked, the virtually slapdash of them all, with a couple of Cyberspace boards and a volume or two about rich people who went on a pre-booked earth tour orchestrated from a fancy pad in an affluent neighbourhood.
Still, anybody contemplating first-time vagabonding, but is a scrap afraid and a fleck unsure, Potts' book will reassure and encourage. Anybody more experienced will be reminded of the wonder and exhilaration of travel.
Recommended.
You might appreciate Baturi by Matthew Stephen, Roam by Dean Starnes or Europe on a Shoestring: Big Trips on Small Budgets (Lone Planet Shoestring Guides) by Sarah Johnstone.
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