Title: Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad

Author: Dave Fox

Publisher: Inkwater Press

ISBN: 978-1-59299-329-1

Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad won the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Book Proposal Contest in 2004. AuthorHouse Books, a co-sponsor of the contest and the workshop, awarded Dave a publishing and promotions package to support the book's initial publication. Then, in March, 2008, Inkwater Press freed Dave from the clutches of self-publishing and released a new and improved second edition. (The first edition is now out of print, however a few copies are still available through this website. Read about the differences between the two editions here.)

Inkwater Press has also purchased the rights to Dave's second book, Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip). That book is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2008. To celebrate the release of that book, Dave will offer a travel journaling seminar at sea on a trans-Atlantic cruise from Brazil to Spain via Cape Verde and Morocco in the spring of 2009. (Details)

"Dave Fox's writing is hilarious," said Tim Bete, director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. "It's rare to find a person who has such unique stories to tell and can write about them to boot."

Description from the Back Cover

"When you travel, things go wrong." That might not sound like uplifting advice, but in this hilarious collection of stories about mishaps in faraway places, award winning humorist Dave Fox proves otherwise.

At age eight, Dave moves to England and nearly starts a riot in Northern Africa. As a nerdy teenager, he smuggles illegal radio equipment into Finland on his way to spending a year in Norway. In his college days, he discovers it is not wise to seek inner peace inside an Icelandic volcano, narrowly misses being stripped, gassed, and robbed (at least in his own head) on an overnight train through Italy, and finds himself surrounded by machine-gun-toting cops in Greece. A few years later, he does something exceptionally reckless. He becomes a professional tour guide.

Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad spans 30 years of adventures and misadventures overseas, from Dave's year as a British school boy, to his teenage days as a foreign exchange student, to his so-called "adult life" as a professional traveler. He weaves together tales both poignant and amusing in this memoir of a travel-obsessed geek.

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