Personal memoir shares Nedd Willard’s life of travels
Geneva (PRWEB) December 15, 2014 -- Author Nedd Willard pens a memoir about his early life on the road, stories of adventure, friends and lovers in “A Traveler Never Reaches the End of the Road”(published by Xlibris UK). What always interested the author was meeting people. Throughout his life, he kept notes and sketches in pen and India ink, and his journals were a way of saving precious moments as he passed through childhood and adolescence.
From his happy childhood to his student days at the University of Wisconsin, Willard’s restless character encouraged him to work his way out west in the US then back east to enlist as an ordinary sailor in the Second World War. At the age of 17, he was on the MV Rescue as World War Two was coming to an end. He kept sailing on other ships long after that, and the Merchant Marine brought him to Europe where he experienced the French culture. It offered him a world full of different values and unusual people. This place is where he felt at home, found friends, perfected his French and finished his doctorate. Some of his bold and expressive sketches from those days illustrate the tales in this book.
“Readers will find that this book is an unusual account of a young man’s growing up. The people and places are real and nothing in the book is fiction. It is easy to read and full of authentic, lively events that made my life so interesting,” says the author.
“A Traveler Never Reaches the End of the Road” recounts the beginning of the author’s endless travels. It vividly shares with readers a true account in the life of a man who saw the world from a different perspective.
“A Traveler Never Reaches the End of the Road”
By Nedd Willard
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 253 pages | ISBN 9781479779062
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 253 pages | ISBN 9781479779055
E-Book | 253 pages | ISBN 9781479779079
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Nedd Willard was born in New York City in 1926, and went to De Witt Clinton High School. He was enrolled earlier in an educational experiment for above-average students and later received a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin when he was 16. He earned his doctorate, entitled Genius and Insanity in the 18th Century, from the Sorbonne in Paris. Later, he spent six years in India for the World Health Organization and was an editor of two international magazines, World Health and UN Special. Willard still lives in the French Alps and Geneva, Switzerland with his wife, Poppy, who edits his books.
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