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A Plain Life
A Plain Life: Walking my Belief © 1998 Scott Savage 224 pages You have to be careful about working in a library. Sometimes books change your life. Scott Savage and his wife were both librarians whose environmental interests put them … Continue reading
Mark Twain and the Swiss Family Robinson
May’s theme for the classics was “Adventure”, as I paired Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain with The Swiss Family Robinson. Twain’s former is a collection more than a monograph, as he presents together his recollections of growing up … Continue reading
Tip of the Iceberg
Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier© 2018 Mark Adams336 pages In 1899, railroad tycoon Edward Harriman organized a multidisciplinary expedition to Alaska, bringing with him some of the best scientists and … Continue reading
Talking to the Ground
Talking to the Ground: One Family’s Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo© 1995 Douglas Preston284 pages “How does the trail look?” Christine asked.“Ask me at the bottom,” I said, feeling a certain queasiness in my stomach. … Continue reading
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Tagged American Southwest, Douglas Preston, mythology, Native America, travel
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The Bicycle Diaries
The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000 Mile Ride for the Climate© 2014 David Kroodsma428 pages The Bicycle Diaries combines travel and climate-change advocacy, both literally as a trip and throughout the book. As Kroodsma makes his way through Mexico, Central America, … Continue reading
Mirrors of the Unseen
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran © 2006 Jason Elliot 432 pages Readers uninterested in the origins and history of Islamic art, metaphysics, or pigeons, should skip to the next chapter, here. In the late nineties, before Afghanistan was … Continue reading
Short rounds: things that are not Star Trek, like North Koreans and Aeneas
Believe it or not, I have been reading books without a Star Trek label appended to them this week. Just recently I finished off Don’t Go There, a short collection of travel pieces that interested me with its mention of visits to … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Africa, Classics and Literary, Korea, literature, Middle East, mythology, travel
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House of Rain
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest© 2007 Craig Childs482 pages Throughout the southwest United States and northern Mexico there are ruins from a people long gone, people remembered as the Anasazi. The name is not … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018 Peoples of the Americas, American Southwest, archaeology, history, Mexico, New Mexico, travel
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Country Driving
Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory© 2010 Peter Hessler448 pages First things first: that statue on the cover intrigued me enough that I bought both books that used photographs of it. Emperor Far Away made nary … Continue reading
The Emperor Far Away
The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China© 2014 David Eimer336 pages The Emperor Far Away takes readers on a journey along China’s outer rim, beginning in the western steppes where the ‘Chinese’ are a minority, and following … Continue reading