I'll Take the High Road

Bob Blake, a young ex-Marine has done what most people only dream of doing. One fine spring morning, looking out of his classroom window across the Harvard Yard, he slammed down his law books, kicked over the traces, and set out on the round-the-world adventure. I'll Take the High Road is his story of the 16 action-packed months that followed. With only enough money to get to New York, Blake landed a job as seaman on the Greek tramp S.S. Odyssey. After storming the Acropolis and Mt. Olympus, where he fell in with guerrillas, he picked up on Alexander the Greek's route of conquest through the Middle East. Along the way he scaled the dome of Santa Sophia at midnight, pried into the secrets of the ancient, long-lost city of Petra, and searched out the mysteries of the haunted Valley of the Assassins.