Rolf Potts (Author of Vagabonding)

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Rolf Potts

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Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, Conde Nast Traveler, Outside, The Believer, The Guardian (U.K.), National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. A veteran travel columnist for the likes of Salon.com and World Hum, his adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, and driving a Land Rover from Sunnyvale, California to Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi

Last month, while I was driving down the Mississippi River on a magazine assignment, I had a curious experience in Rosedale, Mississippi. As I was eating lunch in a place called Leo’s Market, a waitre

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	Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts, Timothy Ferriss (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Foreword) 3.95 avg rating — 27,436 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer 3.95 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel 4.24 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Souvenir by Rolf Potts, Christopher Schaberg (Series Editor), Ian Bogost (Series Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 164 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Geto Boys 3.92 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La très mirifique et déchirante histoire de l'homme qui inventa le livre de poche 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Souvenir: Una storia culturale really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	旅行是為了放大生命的极限 by Rolf Potts, 吕佩珊 (Translator), 王湘菲 (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Henry Ford of Literature by Rolf Potts, Mark Ashby (Narrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Misadventventures of Wenamun by Rolf Potts (Adapted by), Cedar Van Tassel (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”
― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

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“Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from”
― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

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“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”
― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

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Which book would you like to read for June category 2 (Travel) group read?

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism by Thomas Kohnstamm

1 vote, 33.3%

Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts

1 vote, 33.3%

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions by Jenny Diski (write-in)

1 vote, 33.3%

Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer by Rolf Potts

0 votes, 0.0%

Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler by Cash Peters

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Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson

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