We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year

By Charles Wheelan

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Publication Date: January 26, 2021

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Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.

What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic—We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment.Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong?

About the Author

Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.

Format: Hardcover

Length: 288 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date: January 26, 2021

ISBN: 9780393633955

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