This book illustrates important economic concepts that every traveler and world citizen should understand, with a focus on the interplay between travel and economics. The author uses our shared travel experiences to illustrate exactly how economic thinking supplies such a powerful framework for understanding the world around us. More than simply explaining economics through travel experiences, this book enables adventurers who desperately want to avoid being tourists-i.e., people who travel to see what they know is there-to become explorers: those who learn each and every day from what they witness.