Professor Michael E. O'Donnell, a former Jim Thorpe resident and graduate of Jim Thorpe Area High School, has released the third of his memoirs, "Odyssey: Fifty Years of World Travel."

This memoir highlights his experiences, observations, and thoughts during his global adventures, beginning with the Peace Corps in 1962, when he served in Morocco. It also includes his thoughts and pride in being selected for this service, which he considers life-altering and "the best foreign investment in U.S. history."The book is organized chronologically and topically from Africa to South America, from Asia to the Pacific islands, to North America and Australia with a prologue of advice on travel."Books without travel represent learning in a vacuum; travel without books is experience without context, perspective, understanding what it is one sees," he says. "And the most special memories … are always those involving encounters with other people."Anecdotes focus on people who have influenced and helped him.O'Donnell did his undergraduate work at East Stroudsburg University and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Indiana University where he did postgraduate work.He has taught French and Irish Studies at the University of Virginia at Wise since 1968.His previous books: "O'D: A Memoir - Fifty Years of Teaching and Travel," and "O'D II: Life Lessons," both published in 2014, and this book, may be borrowed from the Dimmick Memorial Library, 54 Broadway, Jim Thorpe, and Jim Thorpe Area High School.To purchase the books, contact The University Bookstore, 1 College Ave., Wise, VA 24293 (276-328-0210).Profits from book sales will go toward the O'D/Michael E. O'Donnell Scholarship.