iUniverse would like to announce the release of The Call of the World by Trent Newcomer

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The Journey, Not the Destination
Author Trent Newcomer shares his experience of traveling solo around the globe on a tight budget
FORT COLLINS, COLO. – The Call of the World (published by iUniverse and released January 26, 2009) by Trent Newcomer is part travelogue/part memoir and depicts the challenges and joys of backpacking solo around the globe, as well as one young man’s journey of personal discovery.

Two years after earning a business degree from the University of Colorado, Newcomer has a promising career in commercial real estate in Kansas City. However, he finds that when he opens the newspaper each day, he is much more drawn to the travel section than the business section. When he finally pays attention enough to hear the world calling to him, he feels he has no choice but to answer. He abandons his career, sells his car, and leaves to travel around the globe with nothing more than a vague itinerary and what he can fit into a small backpack. In doing so, he demonstrates how even on a very limited budget it is possible to travel to exotic places for extended periods of time.

For about a year and a half (from early 1995 to the middle of 1996), he travels through the South Pacific and Australia, then across Asia and down through Africa, before finishing with a short visit to Europe. His modes of travel include airplane, bus, train, rickshaw, bicycle, raft, horse, mule-drawn cart, and even camel.  He stays in the cheapest dives he can find and opens himself to countless adventures along the way, while documenting his experiences, thoughts, and feelings in nearly 4,000 pages of personal journal entries.

From having a gun pulled on him in Vietnam and being jumped by a gang of men in Kenya, to experiencing more near-death bus rides than he can count, Newcomer soon discovers that the journey itself is much more meaningful than checking items and places off of a to-do list.

“While pushing my comfort zone beyond what I had previously thought was its limit,” Newcomer says, “I realized that even those tasks that seemed the most daunting at first could be overcome with a bit of persistence, flexibility, and good humor.”

The Call of the World is a looking glass into Newcomer’s mind and soul during that exciting time in his life, when he learned more about the world and his own place in it than he ever thought possible.



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