Take Me With You

A compelling travelogue by a San Francisco Yellow Taxi driver who invites a stranger to America for an all-expenses-paid adventure

'Wherever he goes, he turns strangers into friends with this brilliantly simple question: "What's the best thing that has ever happened to you?" Added to Newsham's sharp eye, gentle wit, adventurous spirit and generous heart, the suspense of "Who does he pick" makes this a perfect travelogue'

'A thoughtful insight into the human side of travel'

Raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, Brad Newsham has lived in ten of the United States, visited all fifty, and circled the globe four times. Since 1985 he has been a San Francisco yellow taxi driver. He is the author of two travel memoirs,  ALL THE RIGHT PLACES: Travelling Light Through Japan, China and Russia and TAKE ME WITH YOU: A Round-the-world Trip to invite a Stranger Home, a WH Smith Travel Book of the Year Finalist 2003. A guest columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives in Oakland, California with his family.

'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.' 
 
Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he's a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He's not rich, but he has never forgotten his vow. 
 
Take Me With You is the compelling account of his journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa as he searches for the right person - someone who couldn't afford to leave their own country, let alone holiday in the West. Newsham's story will change the way you think about your life and the lives of those you meet when you travel. 
 
Who does he invite home? Read Take Me With You and find out...

Brad Newsham

'Newsham is a tremendously gifted and funny writer...This is a marvellous book'

'Newsham brings vividly to life the adrenalin buzz of being a stranger in a strange land...Captivating'&nbsp;

'I am in exactly the right place, thinking, doing and feeling exactly the right things...' 
 
This was the affirmation that Brad Newsham repeated daily as he cycled alone across the Japanese Alps to Mount Fuji, free to wander wherever he chose. But back home in San Francisco, life hadn't been so rosy: his wife had met someone else and wanted a divorce. He tried everything to change her mind, eventually leaving his job and buying a one-way ticket to Asia in the hope that she would miss him. It worked...and then HE met someone else on a bus in Hong Kong. 
 
One of the first wave of Western backpackers to blaze a trail through China and Russia, Brad Newsham travelled from the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the epic prairies of Mongolia in a journey that took him across Asia by bicycle, boat, bus and the Trans-Siberian railway. With its rich and fascinating cast of characters, ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is classic travel writing at its very best.

Brad Newsham

Praise for All The Right Places

'Newsham is a tremendously gifted and funny writer...This is a marvellous book'

'Newsham brings vividly to life the adrenalin buzz of being a stranger in a strange land...Captivating'

Books by Brad Newsham

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