While looking for a job and a place to stay, he takes over the ownership of a bar called The Alamo, and a man named Jean-Victor finds him a place to stay in Torremolinos. After being referred to a woman in Boston named Gretchen, she helps him get into Canada, and he eventually goes to Torremolinos, Spain.
After Joe realizes that with his grades he is going to get drafted, he hitchhikes to Yale University, where he gets the name of a professor who may be able to get him across the border into Canada. In the first chapter, Joe is introduced as a disenfranchised twenty year old youth who is enrolled at the University of California during the Vietnam War. Fairbanks is connected with nearly every character in some way, and they all seem to open up to him throughout the novel in one way or another. The story is told from the perspective of the narrator, George Fairbanks, who is an investment analyst for the fictional company World Mutual Bank in Switzerland. The novel follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique. Excerpt: The Drifters is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener, published in 1971 by Random House. Chapters: The Drifters, Alaska, Space, Chesapeake, Poland, the Covenant, Centennial, the Source, Caribbean, Hawaii, the Voice of Asia, Recessional, Mexico, Legacy, Return to Paradise, the Novel, Caravans, the Bridges at Toko-Ri, Miracle in Seville, Journey, South Pacific, the World Is My Home, Texas, Matecumbe, the Eagle and the Raven, Sayonara, My Lost Mexico, the Fires of Spring, James A. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge.
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