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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel |  | Author: Rolf Potts
Publisher: Villard Books
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 6609
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0812992180
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: December 24, 2002
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Product Description
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.
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 The heart and soul of travel books September 2, 2010
Tobias Falzone (Los Angeles, CA)
Don't expect lists of places to go or things to see. Don't expect packing lists or product recommendations. What you can expect though, is possibly the best written book about long term travel on the market today. With personal anecdotes and stories, Rolf Potts will inspire even the most cloistered individual with wanderlust. It's myriad of recommendations for further reading resembles the bibliography of a research paper, but is helpful and more than enough to sate your appetite for travel. If you are considering a trip beyond the typical one-week american vacation, you should read this book and let it take you to the ultimate adventure.
This Idea Might Help You Finance a "Vagabond" Lifestyle. August 31, 2010
AL (Sacramento, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To be honest, I haven't read this book, but I wanted to share an idea that I had about a week ago.
If you look on ebay, they have something called "ebay mobile" which is an app for the iPhone, and other smartphones as well. Basically, you snap a picture of something and then list it on ebay using only your phone.
So, if you're travelling about and you see something that might sell on ebay, you may be able to finance your vagabond lifestyle! And, if it's something that is mass-produced & widely available, you can even sell it before you buy it. And then ship it off to the buyer of course. : )
Warning: may induce uncontrollable shoestring travel July 12, 2010
Regan Cannon (Seattle, WA)
This may be the most condensed book of travel wisdom I've ever read.
Prior to my post-college backpacking trip I heard all manner of naysayers decry such exploits as "immature!" and "irresponsible!" and "a waste of money!" Rolf Potts reminds us that, for millennia, and only until very recently, long-term travel was considered an integral part of any earnest student's studies. He introduces travel as an artform (a little ambiguous, sure, but go with it) rather than an expensive once-a-year pursuit. Potts breaks down, in the simplest of language, the lifestyle changes that bring about the freedom needed to see the world--for cheap!--for long periods of time.
So if you've ever wanted to backpack through Europe, camel-jockey across the Sahara, island-hop the South Pacific, or ride your motorcycle across China...this book is absolutely for you. It'll inspire you and help you ACTUALLY realize those dreams.
Great Read for Travelers/Tourist June 22, 2010
NC (NY, NY)
This book is packed with tons of useful information for first time travelers. From safety tips, to planning your first vagabonding experience, down to the best place to eat in a tiny village in India can all be found in this book. The findings from this read not only applies to traveling but makes you put your way of living and day to day thinking into perspective. It's an easy read and I highly recommend it!
 2 stars because after three years, I'm still thinking about it! June 4, 2010
urban primate (Bangkok, Thailand)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
If Mr. Potts had come from a family with more money, he'd be a libertine instead of a travel writer with a bone to pick with "trustafarians". I don't know, but that's my hunch. I was given this before what was going to be a 6 month trip through SE Asia, read it cover to cover, and now, three years later, still in SE Asia, I have a few thoughts. As far as the content goes, what isn't anecdotes and essays liberally snatched from other writers is pretty much common sense here. You're either of the right disposition for this sort of thing or you're not. If you don't already know, you'll soon discover once you find yourself on an island with no roads, no telephones, no banks, no atms no one who speaks your language -- and nothing to eat but tuna and rice -- for three months. As for all the details, you'll mostly likely work them out organically for yourself as you go, and have a much richer time for it. For me, the point of traveling is to get away -- to distance yourself, to see and to reflect on the complex cultural and political conditions that pretty much govern our lives, whether we're aware of them or not. I used to consider myself kind of a political radical...but now, I'm not even sure what I am in terms of the clarity with which I see my native culture. And if what has happened to me happened to most people who travel, traveling would certainly be illegal!
Like I said, the content is pretty unsurprising -- not really anything that's changed the way I travel. It's more the author himself as glimpsed through certain offhanded comments and turns of phrase that inspires this critique. He's a good example of the privileged consumer of the corporate packaged world. He obviously has some notion that being "liberal" is hip or something, but he doesn't convincingly evince much critical discernment of his experience. Lots of talk on not being critical of other cultures, of having a sense of humor blah blah blah. Sense of humor? Who needs one of those! (ha) As someone who values liberty a whole lot more than liberalism, I find it essential to be critical of any and all cultures, as well as myself, and I wish everyone had been doing this all along -- it might have spared us and the planet. To my mind, he represents a kind of traveler who, unfortunately, gives non-westerners a very skewed idea of the scope and potential of western culture, and makes it difficult for travelers of a more thoughtful, less extroverted disposition to be received warmly. If we're not sources of wacky entertainment or money or both, then somehow we're just sort of weird and unwelcome, really. I think this is most noticeable in very small and very isolated communities where contact with westerners is infrequent and biased according to the images presented by ubiquitous western entertainment (even in isolated places, they find ways to know who Brad Pitt is). The sorts of travelers who are likely to get out to these places are usually more adventuresome and straight-identified hearty lads and laddesses who are unburdened with intellectual concerns beyond the latest Paulo Coelho or, I can only suppose, Danielle Steele. These are the kinds of people who promptly, upon returning to their internet portals, post their travel blogs, enthusing about their latest all-nighter at the Muslim wedding in East "Indo" (Indo indeed!); which leaves those of us who quietly prefer to boycott weddings because we don't believe in them, and don't subscribe to the simplistic sex and gender politics that traumatize the majority of our species looking only like party pooping kill-joys, or just plain odd.
I guess the obvious conclusion is that I need to write a book and "out" the archetypal Rolf Potts once and for all. For an INFINITELY richer and more humane "vagabonding", (or should I say fagabonding) adventure, DO read Tobias Schneebaum's _Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea_. Not only was this guy honest about his sexuality, he's one of the great author adventurers of any time. I'd also recommend _Throwim Way Leg_ by Tim Flannery. They may not offer you tips on how to pack your rucksack Gary Snyder style, but these fellows set the standard as traveling human beings. You might also check out Tim Flannery's new book on climate change called _Now or Never_, which ought to be mandatory reading, according to Jared Diamond.
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