Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together.

• | Author: Richard Ivan Jobs
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 369 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 022646203X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226462035