From Job to Job around the World

An account of a three-year journey beginning in San Francisco with minimal funds, documenting how the narrator earns passage and employment while traveling through the Pacific, East and South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Arctic before returning to America. The narrative blends practical job-seeking episodes, encounters with local people and officials, misadventures such as arrests and hardships, and descriptions of landscapes, workplaces, and daily life. Chapters alternate anecdote and practical observation, illustrating the possibilities and difficulties of working one's way around the world in moderate comfort.