Location: United States
Member Since:
May 09, 2015
Gary McWilliams
Biography
In the 1960s, Gary McWilliams taught political science at an east coast university. In 1971, he “dropped out” and went traveling. He worked as a hard-rock miner, a deckhand on ocean going freighters, a beekeeper, a tree planter, a trail builder, a charter-boat captain, and a stone artist. He founded Stone Arts of Alaska in 1999, a small business “dedicated to the beauty of stone.”
www.stoneartsofalaska.com. Gary divides his time between southeast Alaska, northwest Washington, and places where the coconuts grow.
www.stoneartsofalaska.com. Gary divides his time between southeast Alaska, northwest Washington, and places where the coconuts grow.
Books
Wanderlusting
by Gary McWilliams
Price:
$11.99 USD.
Words: 182,640.
Language:
English.
Published: May 22, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues, Nonfiction » Engineering, trades, & technology
Wanderlusting is one man's story, alternately funny & hair-raising, about his travels after he dropped out of graduate school in the 1970s. Gary McWilliams chose a working man's life, and worked side by side with an international cast of miners, sailors, & fishermen, also crossing paths with missionaries, smugglers and revolutionaries. His unusual adventures will keep you reading into the night.