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"Remember those halcyon days of yesteryear, when you were an impoverished student, bearing a backpack and a grin through the great cities and the cheap hostels of Europe?

The backpacking trip has become such a rite of passage that former student backpacker Mark Pearson — an Edmonds native — has edited and published a 384-page book on those firsthand experiences. "Europe From a Backpack," already in its second printing, is enough of a success that all the Borders stores now carry it nationwide, and Pearson put together a 41-stop coast-to-coast book tour this month to promote it. "

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