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The extra materials will be available today. . . .

And so they are! And color maps too! Excellent. :thumb:

Just got my hardcover copy from Chaosium. :shocked: :thumb: this is some book! Wish I had this during my last roman history course

ok ... now I'm impatient, when is the PDF of the city map likely to go up? soon I hope. And are you going to put up a PDF of the Character Sheet? Yeah I can xerox it from the book, but I've gotten spoiled by being able to print character sheets off my PC at will.

Anyway, superb book! :thumb:

I wanted to add this to the record.

After following this thread, I went ahead and picked up a copy of “Vagabond Voyaging” – including shipping it was less then $10. I ride a train to and from work each day and was able to read the book in just a few commutes.

IMHO this is a great source book, not only for 1920’s and 30’s, but for classic Traveler. As I was reading the book it seemed to jive exactly with my impression of the typical Traveler adventure; a group of people thrown together on a ship having adventures. Of course, the author was suggesting much more mundane (particularly by 2008 standards) adventures, but the idea was there. Actually, I think even the tonnage of the ships was about the same – maybe a little smaller in Traveler.

I have gotten more out of this $10 book then from many supplements costing a lot more.

I'm glad the suggestion was useful. I've used it mostly for Call of Cthulhu, but you're right, it's a good source for ideas for Traveler too.

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I know just what you need, but it's probably very difficult to get ahold of.

A book called "Vagabond Voyaging: The Story of Freighter Travel" by Larry Nixon, published by Little, Brown and Company, 1938 - Boston.

It's a guide published to advise travelers who wish to travel via tramp steamers and/or freighters rather than ocean liners.

Details:

• Travel Prices
  
• Travels Routes
  
• Accomdations and Food
  
• Appropriate Clothing
  
• How to Prepare
  
• Common Ship Plans
  
• Description of Crew
  

Also has descriptiond of several common trips like

• Passage to Manila
  
• Chinese Ports
  
• Crossing the Equator
  
• Indian Ocean Ports
  
• Round the World Trips
  

Also has a good dozen or so illustrations or photographs of a sample cabin, dining room, sample wine list and dinner menu, the galley in action, etc.

I found my copy in a used bookstore, but a good university interlibrary loan might be able to get ahold of a copy.

anyway - hope that is helpful

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