Offers a look into the adventures and insights of the author. This book recounts mishaps, rides, friendships and personal epiphanies spanning nearly twenty years of exploration.

Part travel guide, part illuminating how-to manual for a more fulfilling, connected life, "Accidental Enlightenment" is an absorbing look into the adventures and insights of Stephen Banick, an inveterate wanderer, observer, and chronicler of the world at large. Banick recounts mishaps, bummed rides, quirky friendships and riveting personal epiphanies spanning nearly twenty years of exploration into far-flung places.