The Size of the World

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Described as a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>travel</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> book like no other by Publishers' Weekly (starred review) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Size of the World</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an extraordinary snapshot of Planet Earth at a time of global transition.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By the time travel writer </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeff Greenwald</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> reached his late 30s he had covered more ground than Magellan Marco Polo and Columbus combined. But he'd also come to a sobering conclusion: Airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the size of the world. His mission: to make a land and sea pilgrimage around the Earth by whatever means necessary without leaving its surface. And while doing so-at the dawn of the Internet Age-Greenwald succeeded in creating the very </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>first travel blogs on the World Wide Web.      </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This 30</span><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th</sup><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Anniversary edition of Greenwald's best-selling odyssey features a new Introduction a Foreword by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Don George</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and some surprises. Join Greenwald as he scales an active volcano in </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guatemala</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> rides a rat-infested ferry across the </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Persian Gulf</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> visits </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Paul Bowles</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in Tangier saves a baby </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>snow leopard</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tibet</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and spends his 40th birthday marooned in the </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sahara</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A pilgrimage both hilarious and harrowing insightful and wise <em>The Size of the World</em> takes you on an adventure you will never forget.</strong></p>