The Critic: “12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.09.03 | 12:11 AM ET
Journalist Mark Jacobson was determined to keep his kids from becoming pop-culture drones glued to video games and bad TV. So in the summer of 2000, he took them on a three-month trip around the world, visiting Thailand, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Did the trip accomplish what he hoped it would? His new book, “12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time,” attempts to answer that question. “Ultimately, we’re shortchanged on a prognosis: it would take more than the book’s breezy 250-plus pages to determine the efficacy of the Jacobson prescription,” writes Elizabeth Einstein for Newsweek via MSNBC.com. “But rattling around Asia, the Middle East and Europe on a relative shoestring is radical therapy—and it’s an amusingly chronicled and appealing ride.” Einstein’s detailed review, which also features her account of a meeting with the author and one of his daughters, is an appealing ride, too.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
