A decade after John L. Kessell first lived his trip around the world, he found himself not a diplomat or an international businessman, but a historian of the Spanish colonial Southwest. He has published previously with the university presses of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. With Around the World Not Counting Days, he invites the reader to join him in reliving these seemingly carefree days.
Having graduated without distinction in 1958 from Fresno State College, 22-year-old John Kessell had no job interviews lined up, no letters of acceptance from grad schools, so the natural course seemed what’s called these days a “gap year.” Why shouldn’t he travel to Australia, his father’...
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