How to Barter for Paradise: My Journey Through 14 Countries, Trading Up from an Apple to a House in Hawaii

Most people like to travel in comfort: they stay in fancy hotels, never leave tourist spots, and stay away from thelocals. Michael Wigge isn t like most people, though. After travelling theworld without money for 150 days while writing How to Travel the World for Free, his next challenge: turn an ap [...]
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Most people like to travel in comfort: they stay in fancy hotels, never leave tourist spots, and stay away from thelocals. Michael Wigge isn t like most people, though. After travelling theworld without money for 150 days while writing How to Travel the World for Free, his next challenge: turn an apple into ahouse in Hawaii.Wigge goes around fourteen countries and sixcontinents exchanging goods for more valuable ones, and he meets an array of good-humoredpeople who take his deals. Taking on his Barterman persona, he trades the applefor sixteen cigarettes in Germany; a couple of trades later in India, he fixesup a motorized rickshaw and trades it for silk; in Australia, a millionaireamuses himself by offering him an art piece for the silk if Wigge feeds a wildcrocodile. Finally, he arrives in Hawaii armedwith two bicycles, a surfboard, Portuguese porcelain, three solid-gold coins, aPorsche wristwatch, a record by musician Coati Mundi and accompanying contractfor 25 percent of the proceeds from his next single, a voucher for a two-nightstay in a mansion in L.A., and a piece of original artwork by painter AlexStenzel now he just has to find someone to give him a house in exchange.On the 200-day journey around theworld, Wigge makes forty-two trades and meets strange, kind, funny, friendly, eccentric, and good-natured people who help him in his quest. It s a journey you won twant to miss