The Story
From an Indiana farm to deserts, mountains, jungles, and oceans around the world, John Rietman followed a career in geology that rarely went according to plan. Citizen of the World is the story of the places he went, the people he met, and the adventures and misadventures that happened along the way.
Second Edition – Revised and Expanded
About the Book
Citizen of the World is a memoir of a life shaped by curiosity, geology, and an enduring tendency to take the less predictable road. From a childhood on an Indiana farm to a career that carried him across the American West and to remote corners of the world, John Rietman recounts the people, places, accidents, discoveries, and occasional questionable decisions that made the journey memorable.
Part travel story, part geological adventure, and part personal history, the book follows a life spent working in deserts, mountains, jungles, offshore waters, and places where things seldom unfolded according to plan. Along the way came friendships, love, loss, danger, humor, and a growing realization that home can be considerably larger than the place where you started.
John "Reety" Rietman 