![]() “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go," Hughes writes. ![]() His travels are part of a tradition of black writers leaving the United States to experience global opportunities beyond American racism. "When I was almost thirty," the book begins, "I began to make my living from writing." That the book garnered him a publishing deal in multiple languages speaks to the clarity of Hughes' vision for what it would take to achieve an impossible dream. ![]() I Wonder As I Wander recalls those travels which were as much an effort to make a living as they were to see the world. ![]() Throughout the 1930s Hughes traveled extensively through the Soviet Union, Haiti, Asia and Latin America, giving lectures and publishing prose as he went to cover expenses. The publisher paid Hughes $150, ( the equivalent of $1,550 today). I Wonder As I Wander was published in 1934, twenty three years before it was translated in Spanish under this contract. Contract between Hughes and Jacobo Huchnik for the publication and distribution of the book's Spanish-language translation. ![]() Signed contract authorizing use of Hughes' autobiography I Wonder As I Wander. ![]()
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