As a boy, future anthropologist Edward Bridge "Ned" Danson dreamed of adventure. He read books about explorers and heroes and studied the lives of prominent men. He raced cars through the streets of Cincinnati, when he should have been studying, and made friends using a charm that was second to none At age seventeen, he lived his dreams by joining the crew of the schooner Yankee for a voyage circumnavigating the globe. Over the next year and a half, Danson encountered cultures dramatically unlike his own and won friends around the world: From a German baroness in the Galapagos islands to the...