Doug Lansky

Doug Lansky, a writer and a traveler, has chronicled his travels around the world in his hilarious and vividly descriptive column, "The Vagabond." His travels have included cruising up the Amazon on a cargo ship, living and blowgun hunting with Jaguar Indians in Peru, buying a horse and riding it to Colombia, hitchhiking through Syria and Jordan, where he befriended sergeants in the Iraqi military, riding a camel across the desert in India, and sailing down the Nile.  Doug's articles have appeared in Spy and Might magazines as well as in numerous major U.S.  daily newspapers.  He is also the co-author of How to Survive High School with Minimal Brain Damage, published when Doug was just sixteen years old.