"Turcich’s account of his 28,000-mile journey is simply astonishing. In understated prose, he tells the kinds of stories most travelers can only dream of. His tale is marked by action, adventure, and danger, of course, but it is guided—quietly—by friendship, love, curiosity, and a deep sense of humanity. With The World Walk, Turcich joins in the long and grand tradition of traveler-writers who discover our planet is, perhaps contradictorily, at once infinitely bigger and surprisingly smaller than they had imagined." 

—Jonathan Arlan, author of Mountain Lines: A Journey through the French Alps