In 1962, as Jack Paar leaves the Tonight Show and Richard Nixon abandons politics, P. J. Cooper, an eccentric English teacher, guides a group of high-school seniors on a journey of self-discovery during a vacation jaunt to the desert. Rare First Edition. Some edgewear to dust jacket with small tear to dust jacket at the top on the back. Small age spots to bottom of page edges. Very light stain to side edge of pages.