In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental jour ney, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York. Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled in a master's program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against...
In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student d...
Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside. A few years ago, Ken Ilgunas walked 1,700 miles for his book Trespassing Across America. As he hiked over the Great Plains to the Gulf Coast of Texas, he was struck by one simple fact: private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot "No Trespassing" and "Private...
Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our c...
