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The Years of Travelling Anxiously: A Travel Writer's Search for Peace of Mind

The Years of Travelling Anxiously: A Travel Writer's Search for Peace of Mind

Sykes, Tom

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralTravel GeneralMental Health

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 1837732558
ISBN13: 9781837732555
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the anxious traveler, where panic strikes in the most serene situations, where each time you're convinced that the symptoms are in fact physical and your lungs or heart will stop working, and the only relief is a paramedic telling you that you won't die despite being stuck with them in an ambulance in a smoky Global Southern gridlock.

Over the last twenty years, writer and academic Tom Sykes has been lucky enough to travel all over the world. But his trips have often been marred - if not ruined - by anxiety. Part travelogue, part wellbeing memoir, The Years of Travelling Anxiously recounts jittery visits to Nigeria to get married and undergo IVF treatment, stressful encounters with bigots and bureaucrats in France, the Philippines and the USA, and what can be learned about mental health on the road from a baby with an inspiringly calm attitude to travel.

The Years of Travelling Anxiously tries to solve a lifelong conundrum about the causes and consequences of panic and distress, and in so doing help other anxious travelers, or indeed anyone who gets anxious about anything, wherever they go.

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