My book has arrived

Friends, allies, fellow travelers and people who somehow ended up here while looking for something else: I am happy to announce the release of my book Här finns inga drakar (Here be no dragons).

After years of writing, rewriting, traveling, drinking coffee, losing track of notes, finding them again and occasionally wondering why I started this whole ridiculous enterprise in the first place, the book is finished.

300 pages. 3 decades of travel. A lot of countries. An irresponsible amount of coffee. All of it compressed into something you can now drop on your foot.

Shameless promoting because yes.

The book contains assorted stories from the road. The good, the bad and the sort of experiences that seemed like perfectly reasonable ideas at the time.

There’s diving with overly protective sharks in the Similan Islands, where I discovered that being part of the food chain is considerably less charming when you’re not at the top of it.

There’s eating sheep’s head in Tehran, because nothing says cultural immersion quite like having your dinner stare accusingly back at you.

There are meals shared with complete strangers aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, that magnificent rolling experiment in geography, vodka and prolonged confinement.

There’s an investigation into the actual color of the equator. And there’s plenty of other weird stuff.

Best of all, it’s an actual printed book. Yes, paper. One of those old-fashioned collections of tattooed tree remains you may remember from your grandparents’ house, before we decided that every aspect of human civilization should require a charger and a software update.

I love the smell of napalm books in the morning and it feels good to hold them in your hands. I like their weight. I like turning pages. I like putting one on a shelf and knowing that, short of fire, flood or an unusually determined dog, it will probably still work twenty years from now.

But I’m not completely opposed to civilization. If dead trees offend your modern sensibilities, or your luggage allowance, there’s of course an e-book version too.

So there it is. Thirty years of wandering around the planet, making questionable decisions and writing some of them down. Now available in convenient book form. Get your copy now:

For more information, visit the book page.