The Backpack Years: Two Memoirs, One Story
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Stef and James couldn't get it all together-aside from gathering clothes and toiletries to stuff in a backpack. To these adventurous, incident-prone 20-somethings, carrying their lives with them felt like freedom, and they traveled not just to explore, but to escape. James's father and his job pushed him out of England, and Stef left her old personality and anxieties back in America. What followed was a transcontinental journey of bad choices spanning six years and thirteen countries.
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