The Weight of Empathy

What happens when you leave everything and everyone you know behind, take a one-way flight across the ocean--and continue by foot, train, bus, rickshaw, motorbike, and ferry--until you've circled the Earth? That's what Lucas Spiegel decided to find out in early 2016. What started as an ambitious plan to travel the world for twenty-two months became a transformative exploration of our relationship with animals, food, and each other. The story of this journey makes for an impassioned and personal, yet thoroughly reasoned, plea for a kinder, more just, and merciful world.