Travels With David : David French : 9780692755754 : 0692755756 : 28 Jul 2016 : While David French was at university in California, his father was posted to Ethiopia by the World Bank. In 1960, David turned a family visit to Addis Ababa into a round-the-world trip, visiting a dozen countries. He was to spend more than 30 of the next 45 years living, working, and touring in almost 60 countries outside America. Coming to rest in Vermont in 2006, he kept his passport current, visiting countries from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, as well as the breadth of Canada and most parts of the United States. Much of David's time abroad involved work as a development socioeconomist, a hybrid profession in line with the hybrid degree (a Ph.D. in Political Economy) he had received from Harvard University. Along the way, he worked for institutions including the U.N. World Food Program, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the consulting firm Arthur D. Little, the U.N. Food