Smiling at the World: A Woman's Passionate Yearlong Quest for Adventure and Love

By Joyce Major

Joyce Major rented her houseboat, sold her car, left her successful real estate career and took off for a trip around the world - ALONE! Major's yearlong global voluntourism adventure unleased her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979974003
• ISBN13: 9780979974007
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Alegro Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Visiting countless nations, helping countless people and animals, and picking up countless odd-jobs

A year around the world, visiting countless nations, helping countless people and animals, and picking up countless odd-jobs - makes most readers past years seem tame and unexciting. "Smiling at the World: A Woman's Passionate Yearlong Quest for Adventure and Love" is author Joyce Major's account of leaving a successful career and comfortable life to go around the world alone, calling her act 'volun-tourism' and doing everything she could to help the planet while swimming in an ocean of new experiences. "Smiling at the World: A Woman's Passionate Yearlong Quest for Adventure and Love" is highly recommended to armchair travelers who want a fresh travelogue and for community library travel and memoir shelves.

an inspiration

It's been 2 months since I have finished this book and I am still with it. A great lesson on how one's attitude really influences their experience and relationship to others.

Smiling at the World

Joyce Major is funny, honest and informative in her book, "Smiling at the World." Not only is this book delightfully entertaining, but it has inspired me with the courage to take action on one of my biggest dreams... to travel the world! This is one of the best books I've read in the last year...

Smiling at the World

Fantastic reading! Well written, thought provoking and inspiring. Who hasn't dreamed about a trip around the world? Here is a women that took a year and actually did it and for less than $27,000!! I'm so inspired as she did this when she was 57 and by herself. There is so much more to this story than just volunteering and traveling. A must read for anyone who has a dream to travel and a desire for adventure but keeps making excuses for why they can't do it.

Smiling!

Just started reading this book. It's always great to see when people find their dreams, make them come true. The fact that Joyce manages to make it into a book that's well written, might inspire other people to find their dream, is even greater. Looking forward reading the remainder of the book, find my dream...