“I love your book. I think it’s fascinating.”

— Jack Canfield
Co-Creator, Chicken Soup for the Soul

Takeaway: Clear-eyed memoir rich with wanderlust and cultural immersion.

Great for fans of: Mark Adams’s Turn Right at Machu Picchu, Shannon O’Brien’s Stray.

— BookLife Review

Around the World in 42 Days is a trip you most definitely do not want to miss. To journey with Imogene Drakes is to experience the world with a scientist’s exacting observational skills, a poet’s artistry and intuition, and a mystic’s profound presence to people, place, and time. She is the rare storyteller who can engage your heart, mind, and spirit—Around the World is above all a quest for meaning—while keeping you precariously perched on the edge of your seat.

—Craig Irvine, PhD
Founding Director, Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

An easy, sensitive, and enjoyable read, rich with insights into peoples, cultures, and religion, vividly rendered through journeys from Ecuador to Australia and beyond. Sometimes vulnerable, other times astute, Imogene Drakes brings both scientific knowledge and writerly craft to her reflections—beginning with her pursuit of the famed Darwin finches and later turning her attention to the local favorite, the tortugas.

—Reverend Faustina Ward Osborne

This book is a fun, interesting, and wholesome read. As a hopeful future solo traveler, I found myself wanting to experience many of the adventures Imogene shares along the way.

—Ivette Viera
Early Reader and Aspiring Solo Traveler