360 Degrees Longitude by John Higham

360 Degrees Longitude

By

John Higham

Guest Post by Kristina Tumlison  

Fall Reading for Pre-AP World Geography

and AHS Staff Book Club Selection for November

Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude is one family’s journey around the world.  It is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen” with a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning, John Higham and his wife, September bid their high-tech jobs and suburban lives good-bye, packed up their home and set out with two children, ages eight and eleven, to travel around the world. In the course of the next 52 weeks they crossed 24 time zones, visited 28 countries and experienced a lifetime of adventures.