{"product_id":"five-ferries-william-michael-ried-9781949085020","title":"Five Ferries","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-way ticket to \"Europe on no dollars a day\" buys Stephen Kylemore a trip to love, loss and liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith college behind him and nothing to tie him down, Stephen Kylemore yearns to escape a country and a family torn apart by the Vietnam War. Buoyed by his love of literature and a dream of living an odyssey of his own, he buys a one-way ticket for the journey he will come to call \"Europe on No Dollars a Day.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen joins young people from around the world on a road with no clear destination. He hitchhikes, sleeps in the woods, looks for work and trades one paperback novel for another to maintain his alternate reality. Sympathetic hosts smooth his path, eager to repay kindnesses they received on their own travels. He finds instant friends and transient romance. His months of travel inevitably reveal the circle of life and make him confront the tension and the passion he left behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravelers of a certain age will recognize a world that seems archaic in this day of debit cards and instant communication. But time and technology don't diminish the universal human experience of survival and redemption, love, loss and liberty that await any traveler breaking trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Michael Ried\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949085023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949085020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Ried\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2019","brand":"William Michael Ried","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486478905599,"sku":"9781949085020","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22464208-7c9c-444c-a60c-2fe0213ce7b1.jpg?v=1778055640","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/five-ferries-william-michael-ried-9781949085020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}