229 George Meegan: The Underground History of Amercian Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org

 

229 George Meegan: The Underground History of Amercian Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org

 

 

George Meegan

 

  George Meegan was twenty-five years old and an elementary school dropout, a British  merchant seaman when he decided to take the longest walk in human history, without any  special equipment, foundation bankroll, or backing of any kind. Leaving his ship in South  America he made his way to Tierra del Fuego alone and just began to walk. Seven years  later after crossing the Andes, making his way through the trackless Darien Gap, and  after taking a long detour on foot to see Washington, D. C, he arrived at the Arctic Ocean  with a wife he met and married along the way, and their two children. In that instant,  part of the high academic story of human migrations received its death blow from a  dropout. His book was published in 1982.