The guy -I have never headrd of him before- who wrote this book has the energy of an oddball about him. He has non-chalently faced death several times, but he seems quite unfaced about it all. I guess that this book -specially the last addenda- can be used as a guidebook for anybody attempting to try something like this. There is no mention anywhere of a ghost writer, so I am willing to give the main narrator the honour of being the author. The maps and the drawings in general were an important part of it all. Kudos to Dawn Reade and Giuliana Mercorio Ashford - you are talented!