Since graduating fromcollege having a journalism level, Phil Cousineau’s wanderlust has driven him tovisit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker,travel writer, professional photographer, and art and literary tour head. For him, travel provideswhat his coach Joseph Campbell called “the main element towards the realm from the muses.” Authorof the bestselling travel book The Artwork ofPilgrimage, Cousineau is constantly on the crisscross the globe like a travel writer, a filmmaker, and the host of Global Spirit.

The Reserve of Highways: A Lifestyle Created from Travel may be the culmination of alifetime of travel experiences, from your steel factories of Detroit toheadhunting villages in the Philippines, the war-torn villages in the Balkansto the river roads of Canada once traversed by his voyageur ancestors. Hisrhapsodic travel stories place him in the league of fellow travelers who arealso masterful writers, such as Pico Iyer, Jack Kerouac, Jan Morris, and BerylMarkham.