Footloose Scot
Subtitle: travels in a time of change
By: Jim Glendinning
Publisher: Mill City Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781938223297
Subjects: Travel; Voyage
Description: Footloose Scot is a historical record over 50 years of the travel experiences of Scots-born Jim Glendinning. It is part travel adventure memoir and part travel trade recollections. Glendinning's travel adventures include hitchhiking around post -war Europe in the 1950s, driving with his wife to India, joining a truck-load of adventuers driving through Africa, hiking 600 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail as well as through Panama's Darien Gap. In all, he visited 136 countries and he isn't finished yet.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Dedication; Preface; Part I: Solo Traveler; Chapter 1: Hitchhiking Europe 1958; Chapter 2: Hiking through Oregon 1986; Chapter 3: Round the World 1987; title: Asia; Chapter 4: Round the World 1987; title: Africa; Chapter 5: Central & South America 1990; Part II: Group Adventures; Chapter 6: Student tour to Mao's China 1968; Chapter 7: Driving to India 1974; Chapter 8: By Truck Through Africa 1977; Chapter 9: Hiking in Mexico's Copper Canyon 2008; Part III: In the Travel Industry; Chapter 10: Student Travel, New York & USSR 1961-1966; Chapter 11: Bed & Breakfast owner, Texas 1994-1999.; title: Chapter 12: Tours to Mexico 2000-2009Part IV: Volunteer-Traveler; Chapter 13: Peace Corps, Kazakhstan 2004; Part V: Traveler-Writer; Chapter 14: Nine Trips 2000-2010; Chapter 15: The Pianist of the Sierra 2010; title: Race Day in Urique, Mexico 2011.