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    Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World
    Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World
    Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World
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    Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World

    By Bruce Northam

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    In Globetrotter Dogma, travel writer Bruce Northam entertains, educates, and motivates readers to hit the road through an idiosyncratic mix of travel lore, humor, shock, story, and practical advice. Employing a rambling résumé that touches two-thirds of the planet, Northam shares wisdom from his far-flung adventures:drifting with Burma's nomadic sea gypsies; walking coast-to-coast across northern England with Dad; shepherding in Morocco; pogo-sticking with Bulgarian gypsies, just to name a few. This timeless, illustrated compendium of roving bliss provides 100 reasons to keep exploring our wild and ever-changing world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781577317333
    Globetrotter Dogma: 100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World
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    Bruce Northam

    Bruce Northam is the author of The Frugal Globetrotter and In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology. His multimedia presentations — held at universities and seminar centers nationwide — celebrate the spirit and soul of circling the globe five times, freestyle. Bruce is Writer at Large for Blue Magazine, a guest writer for National Geographic Traveler, Details, and the Utne Reader, as well as a guest speaker on National Public Radio’s The Savvy Traveler. His rambling résumé includes acting as a stunt man in Chinese action movies, judging Nicaragua’s Corn Island beauty contest, surviving on sheep jerky in the Utah desert, dirty dancing in Venezuela, and babysitting in rural Japan. Bruce keeps one tentacle in Manhattan. He is currently creating his next book and television show — both titled American Detour. Details on his live travel presentation are on AmericanDetour.com.

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      On one hand, this book suffers from the same problems armchair travel books often suffer from: over-romanticisation of backpacking culture and over-simplification of other cultures.

      But it's always inspiring to read books about travelling the world, and I still thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.

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    Globetrotter Dogma - Bruce Northam

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    CANON 2: Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

    Irode a sluggish train across humid southwest India that chugged slowly enough to keep inside the cloud of its own dust. Stopped in a nameless station, I tuned into a canine emissary. From my window I saw a dog, which, gristly and blue, sat before the open window of the seat adjacent to mine, where it knew a couple was eating. The gaunt dog had lost patches of fur, giving him the topography of a plucked chicken. I noted it was a he. He had a clever, longing face with eyes that radiantly reflected his thoughts: hunger, optimism, and patience, with a weary intuition of impending disappointment.

    The couple next to the adjacent window had rotund physiques. Chewing blindly, stuffing themselves, they sensed no obligation to the dog, who continued eyeing them, sitting sidesaddle on his haunches. There was another dog further up the platform, to which an elderly man had thrown a tidbit. My dog glanced sideways for an instant, wondering whether to abandon his pitch — the couple might relent at any moment, since they had ample rations. Thought spread across his face, nostrils flared with the scent of bread and meat. He opted to stay put, his eyes infused with such yearning that I was sure the couple could no longer ignore him; they would look down and pitch at least a crust. But they didn’t look away from their meal. Abruptly, the whistle sounded and the train started rolling. The dog cantered along with it half-heartedly, eventually graduating into a loping

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