Name: walden on wheels: on the open road from debt to freedom (en Inglés)
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Author: Ilgunas, Ken
ISBN: 9780544028838

portada walden on wheels: on the open road from debt to freedom (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ken Ilgunas

Editorial

Mariner Books

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.25 kg.

ISBN

054402883x

ISBN13

9780544028838

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Memorias bibliográficas
Viajes económicos

walden on wheels: on the open road from debt to freedom (en Inglés)

Ken Ilgunas (Autor) · Mariner Books · Tapa Blanda

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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 three-year transcontinental journey, 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 his future again. He used the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline van and outfitted it as his new dorm. The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be more than an adventure--it would be his very own "Walden on Wheels." Freezing winters, near-discovery by campus police, and the constant challenge of living in a confined space would test Ilgunas's limits and resolve in the two years that followed. What had begun as a simple mission would become an enlightening and life-changing social experiment. Walden on Wheels offers a spirited and pointed perspective on the dilemma faced by those who seek an education but who also want to, as Thoreau wrote, "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."