Amazon Welcome to World Stompers Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: CCC Publishing ISBN-10:  1888729031 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 460 Copyright: Mar 1 1999 This lively compilation applauds the roving prose of Simon Winchester, Tim Cahill, Marybeth Bond, Jeff Greenwald, Robert Young Pelton, Richard Bangs, Phil Trupp, Paul McHugh, Don George and Linda Watanabe McFerrin – complemented by an eclectic gathering of characters including an Indian guru, a rock-n-roll Hall of Famer, a Manhattan horse-drawn carriage driver, a comedian, a shrink, a career surfer, a few actors and an anonymous, best-selling bad boy. Eyebrow-raising stories that inquire — HAVE YOU EVER? * Played naked Frisbee with New Guinea natives? * Seduced a Belfast prison inmate? * Crossed a border illegally using the Jedhi mind trick? * Had your head examined by a Chinese Witch Doctor? * Been trail-mugged by a gang of Nepalese 8-year-olds? * Had a peak experience on a towering heap of garbage? * Galloped across Inner Mongolia? * Enjoyed young lust on a secluded Greek beach? * Summited Egypt's Great Pyramid? Excerpt In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology is an epic collection of 100 traveler's tales. This compendium celebrates the wild side of contemporary travel. Revealing, humorous, sometimes naughty stories by acclaimed authors. "A book to heat up the gypsy blood in all of us."

Boston Herald

"Movers, shakers and naked Frisbee players -
“ ‘In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology,’ compiled by Bruce Northam and Brad Olsen (CCC Publishing), the wanderlust-addicted writers of these exciting travel essays, undergo physical challenges and life-changing insights as they explore seldom-visited places: the summit of Florida's megagarbage dump, "Mount Trashmore," DNA-collecting in Mongolia to determine the origins of American Indians; barhopping in Outback Australia; naked Frisbee with Dani tribesmen. These zany, enthusiastic adventurers and hippie journalists push travel writing far beyond Sunday supplement fare.”

New York Post
“Anything can happen when you travel. And in the new anthology, ‘In Search of Adventure', written and compiled by Bruce Northam and Brad Olsen, just about everything does. From playing Frisbee naked with New Guinea native to engaging in all-out tomato warfare in Bunol, Spain, dozens of writers share 100 amazing tales and tale you to places you might never go. The book celebrates the wild side of travel”

Travel Weekly
“You don’t have to read a traditional guidebook to gain an understanding of a destination. This compilation of 100 eclectic essays takes readers into the hearts and minds of the authors and the destinations in which their adventures take place. Whether clients are headed to Bhutan or their favorite chair, they will be entertained, enlightened and sometimes shocked by these honest slices of life on the road.”