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Dan Wake’s ‘Eat the Wind’ Recalls a Decade of Unscripted Global Adventures
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Before smartphones, GPS navigation and online travel guides made exploring the world easier, traveling often required a sense of adventure, a willingness to take risks and the ability to trust strangers. Author Dan Wake revisits that era in his new memoir, Eat the Wind: Travels with Dictators, Mercenaries, and Queens, recounting a decade of journeys and unexpected encounters across the globe.
Exploring Your Creative Genius: Eat The Wind
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In this week’s show we meet Dan Wake and learn about his amazing new book, ‘Eat the Wind: Travels with Dictators, Mercenaries, and Queens.’ And as I say in the show, that’s the coolest title for a book I’ve come across in years.
The Lawyer Who Let the Hitchhiker Win
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A conversation with Dan Wake, author of the new book, Eat the Wind: Travels with Dictators, Mercenaries and Queens
Alternative Paths: A Trial Lawyer Traded a High-Profile Job for a Backpack
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Dan Wake walked away from a good law career at 28 to travel across Asia. Four decades later, he calls it a defining moment of his life and has written a memoir about it.
1980’s Spain, where a Basque demonstration takes a turn for the worse
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I was thinking more about lunch than ETA when my train pulled into San Sebastián about midday. That left all afternoon and evening to play tourist before the last bus to a youth hostel on the edge of town would leave from the station at 10:00 p.m. I stored my backpack in the station’s luggage room, stashed the claim check in my money belt, and walked into town.