A Vagabond's Odyssey Being Further Reminiscences of a Wandering Sailor-troubadour in Many Lands

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. A Vagabond's Odyssey is the candid, wistful memoir of A. Safroni-Middleton, a born wanderer who looks back on a life spent sailing, performing, and drifting across oceans and cultures. From the opening pages, he frames his story as both romantic and hard-won: a tale of tropical seas, island legends, comradeship, hunger, temptation, and the uneasy pull between freedom and respectability. Revised from an earlier autobiography, the book admits its gaps and silences while preserving the glow of memory, adventure, and emotional truth. Its chapters move restlessly from Boston poverty and a first song sale to Providence band work, comic hustles, and the noisy confidence of American city life. From there the narrative ranges far wider, through Samoa, Honolulu, New Zealand, Yokohama, Bombay, West Africa, and the Australian bush, gathering vivid scenes, local characters, and striking landscapes along the way. Encounters with Robert Louis Stevenson, military music, odd jobs, homesickness, and national boasting give the memoir its lively mix of humor, travel, and self-mocking reflection.