“In License to Travel, Bixby explores the passport’s linguistic journey and much else. . . . An impressive survey.”
—Wall Street Journal
“A comprehensive, insightful history. . . . Bixby offers up a formidable survey of this everyday artifact and how it defines individuals and affords varying degrees of privilege and freedom, depending on one’s place of birth.”
—New York Times
“Neatly lays out the mighty power of the passport and the pains of passport inequality. . . . With License to Travel, Bixby also makes the argument that applying and carrying a passport is not just an administrative hoop that travelers must jump through: Having a passport gives us the freedom to travel—and the freedom to thrive.”
—AFAR Magazine
“Read this book and you’ll never again treat your passport so casually.”
—Geography Realm