It was as a student at Britain's Cambridge University that Mark Howell hitchhiked to Morocco and to Afghanistan. But his trip across America was made with a friend in a 1964 electric-blue Plymouth Savoy. In the 1970s, Howell's career in publishing began in Montreal and reached London, New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto, and proclaimed as "legendary" by Paperback Fanatic. In Florida in the 1980s, as editor and senior writer of the Key West arts and politics publication, Solares Hill, he won 17 journalism awards. Howell compiled and illustrated the banned Thoughts of Sgt. Lennon on John Lennon a...