Between conventional jobs such as teaching and editing books, Michener traveled with Spanish bullfighters, worked on a coal barge in the Mediterranean and collected folk songs near Scotland.

• 除了从事教师、编辑这类常规性的工作之外，麦切纳与西班牙斗牛士一同旅行，在地中海的一艘煤船上工作，还曾在苏格兰附近收集民歌。