"With vivid descriptions of life from both the developed and developing worlds, veteran world traveller Trevor Carolan tells twenty stories that you wish you’d experienced yourself. These tales of backpacking and flashpacking, from near home and far away, offer a harvest of encounters with intriguing people, remarkable landscapes and rich cultures–with side orders of tasty food and wine. Some of the people he meets or talks about include; Janis Joplin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mike Bloomfield, Joanne Kyger, Ryszard Kapuściński (Europe’s greatest travel writer), Allen Ginsberg, Szymon Ogryzek, Zuzanna Budzynska, Patrick Kavanagh, Luis de Camões, João Soeiro, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. His accounts of meaningful journeys in search of an authentic life awaken readers to experience destinations as diverse and unexpected as Morocco, Indonesia, India, Portugal, Japan, backcountry Jamaica, new Poland, Gaelic Ireland, old Lisbon, Bangkok, Yorkshire, Laos, Tahiti, Hawaii, and parts of British Columbia. An exhilaratingly fresh travel perspective for all the senses."-- Provided by publisher.