The former vice president and author of such best-sellers as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Earth in the Balance" presents a follow-up work to address key environmental issues while profiling and evaluating possible solutions.

"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...

Traces life in an Aurunci Mountains community where residents enjoy scientifically documented long lives that the author attributes to local cooking and eating habits, sharing a year's worth of recipes that focus on the potential benefits of high-quality, locally-grown ingredients.

Road Life introduces you to 35 people from across the globe who've made their vans, campers and busses part of their lifestyle, and provides you with the tools to do the same.