Walking to Vermont From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

In this witty memoir, an acclaimed foreign correspondent for "The New York Times" embraces retirement by walking into it--nearly 400 miles from New York City to Vermont. From the author of the bestseller "The Cat Who Covered the World."

Christopher S. Wren retired from The New York Times after nearly twenty-nine years as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor. He headed the Times’ news bureaus in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa, and Johannesburg; covered the United Nations; and reported from the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and Canada. He taught at Princeton University before coming to Dartmouth, where he is visiting professor in its Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. He is the author of Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom.