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Each chapter consists of what amounts to a blog post, some hyperlinks, a profile of some famous vagabond cribbed from a wikipedia entry (Thoreau, Whitman), quotations from literature and vapid travel writers. Basically the amount of author written content here is about 80 pages of a 240 page book. The rest is filler. This is a trick of Tim Ferris disciples; you get a bunch of other people to more or less write the book for you. Then the people you quote or tout write glowing reviews. Ferris books actually contain useful information; this one, well, maybe it is useful to someone. Not to me. And what content. Banal "be humble while traveling" advice. Egg noodle fortune cookie hokum. Weird "you can do it" wowzerism. Useless "avoid getting Montezumas revenge" and "try not to be a crime victim" advice. I'm a fairly seasoned traveler, contemplating doing a several month nomad jag. This book is not helpful to me. I am assuming there is some population somewhere; 20 year old backpackers who don't read their Lonely Planet guides maybe. I'm not that guy.