Robert W. Bone

My new book, "FIRE BONE! -- A Maverick Guide to a Life In Journalism," is finally available here on Amazon. In a pound and half, 350 pages, 110,000 words, and dozens of photographs, it covers a life of travel and high adventure from 1932 to 2014.

It includes my midnight climb of a ship's mast at sea, how I lost my passport in London and my virginity in Fort Knox, how I unexpectedly walked into an impossible overseas job in Europe, my planting of Castro's revolutionary flag in Belgium, tangled with the Moscow police in the Soviet Union, thwarted a "pigeon drop" con scheme in Paris and how I managed to photograph President Charles deGaulle there too.

It covers my long-time close friendship with "gonzo" writer Hunter S. Thompson, being shot at from a rice paddy while touring Vietnam, crossing Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, traveling experiences with wives and girlfriends, adventures in Puerto Rico and Rio de Janeiro, pulling up noxious plants in Idaho, and gaining wisdom from a "sinking man" in Oakland.

I also was a junior editor on Popular Photography magazine in New York and a photo editor for a Time-Life series of science books, ghost wrote European travel guides from a base in Spain, and created a Pacific travel articles and photo syndicate for more than 35 years in Hawaii.

Thousands of travelers to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska and the Yukon carried my award-winning "Maverick" guidebooks to those areas in the late 20th Century.

Please also see my three long-time personal websites, robertbone.com, travelpieces.com, and bonevoyage.us for a detailed biography and more about my books.

I currently live in Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. For questions, observations, availability for interviews and travel, please email me at travelwriter@robertbone.com.