Congratulations go out to Chris Guillebeau, the creative force behind The Art of Nonconformity on the sale of his book to Perigee (part of Penguin Putnam).

In June of this year, Chris Guillebeau wrote a short booklet called A Brief Guide to World Domination and released it online as a pdf. Within weeks tens of thousands of people downloaded it, the New York Times wrote about it in its Shifting Careers column, Seth Godin endorsed it, and literally hundreds of bloggers got behind it. The booklet has now been downloaded more than 100,000 times in over 60 different countries.

The book will greatly expand upon the ideas first sketched out in that booklet with the goal of challenging readers’ assumptions about how we live and work, as well as to inspire them to create their own ideal life, live where they want, do work that’s deeply meaningful to them, and to change the world in a positive way at the same time.

For many that may involve leaving their 9-5 behind to travel or volunteer, or moving to some exotic locale in order to do the kind of work they’ve always dreamed about. However, unlike some other titles I’ve seen that offer the promise, but come up short on showing readers exactly how to make it happen, Chris’ book will provide a complete, detailed road map showing readers how to actually achieve their goals.

Chris can show readers the way because he lives that way himself, having spent four years in West Africa doing volunteer work and traveling to more than 100 countries around the world, with the goal of visiting every country in the world by the time he’s 35 – all while running his own micro-business and making a positive contribution to the world around him.

Chris wrote a blog post about the sale of the book and his plans going forward, which you can read here. Congratulations, Chris!