World Enough: Travel Memoirs [Paperback]

Charles Stickney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 2001

Boating down Nepali rivers, tracking rhinos on foot and on elephant-back, seeing the Buddha light at dawn in Perus Macchu Picchu and from a sacred mountain peak in China, smoking opium in Thailands Golden Triangle, worshipping in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa just after Tibet was opened to Westerners, and having a pistol pulled on him in Kabul just before Afghanistan and Iran were closed to Westerners by revolutions and wars. By camel in Rajahstan and Morocco, by elephant in Thailand and Nepal, by bike in Sri Lanka, paddleboat in Kashmir, yacht in Panama, motorcycle in Japan, jammed minivan in Java, rickshaw in Jaipur, by thumb in the US, horse in Mexico, water buffalo in India, and on foot everywhere and often, Dr. Stickney invites you along on his travelscountry by country, many of them several times over the years.

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About the Author

Charles Stickney has been a literature professor at John Jay College, CUNY, for 31 years. Before this, Dr. Stickney was a Naval officer on ships in Japan and Europe, and an advertising copywriter. He has lived and traveled in foreign countries for about ten of his sixty years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059518474X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595184743
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,159,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stickney's Travels, September 9, 2001

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Stephen L. Slavin "Steve Slavin" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World Enough: Travel Memoirs (Paperback)

You can go abroad as a tourist, a journalist, a long-term visitor, or as a traveller. Over parts of four decades, Charles Stickney traveled mainly on the cheap, even hitching, while proudly staying in places that most Americans would shun. "World Enough" records the strange, the unusual, as well as the prosaic and mundane. When we go someplace, what do we notice, what thoughts do we record, and what do we remember? He quotes Barbara Tuchman: " As individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record." An English professor, Stickney notes that poets write so often about such noncontent-
ments like unrequited love. Then he writes, "Sad to say, it really is lucky for regular folks that poets don't get laid as much as they'd like." This observation is central to his travels, because the reader is reliably informed whenever Stickney did or didn't get laid. And lucky for us regular folks, Stickney didn't get laid as much as he would have liked.
How has a place changed since the last time the author visited? How much have the times changed and how much has the author, himself, changed? Stickney goes the extra mile, so to speak, telling us not just what he saw, but how he felt. It would be fair to describe "World Enough" as a semi-autobiographical travel book. The writing is good and the writer is quite empathetic. Buy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!, November 13, 2003

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This review is from: World Enough: Travel Memoirs (Paperback)

Entertaining book by a world traveler with a heart. This book can get your Adrenalin up. It is definately worth reading at least twice. He manages to find good in almost everyone and everything.

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Adventurer, November 6, 2003

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This review is from: World Enough: Travel Memoirs (Paperback)

Every fellow adventurer or traveler who enjoys a good read should read this book. How I envy his experiences and knowledge. Not only is the book very readable - in places it is hysterically funny - it is very educational. Once you start reading it, you will not be able to put it down. A Gem of a book!