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Destination: France Book: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik I seem to be reading backward in time through my pile of French books. First I read A Sweet Life in Paris, released just this year and about an American in Paris in the present. I have just finished Paris to the Moon, published in [...]
PDF Destination: Finland Book: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson A Journey into the Finnish Summer by guest author, Michele Simeon Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Tove Jansson has been called the “laureate of small things” for her astounding ability to capture beauty, darkness, and meaning in deceptively simple details. Jansson’s novel The Summer Book follows an elderly [...]
Do summer days make you wish you were on an island? See some books about about Greek Islands, and specifically about Crete. And over at Spot Cool Stuff, I wrote about my idyll on the island of Siphnos. Or journey to the Caribbean with this British travel writer. Have a nice trip to the islands! [...]
Author Shelley Seale talks about her Six favorite books for travel to India
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A video shows the striking new Acropolis Museum, and A Traveler’s Library reviews the week spent in Greece.
Destination: Greece Read: Childe Harold, Canto II, XI-XIII and XV By Lord Byron If you are lucky, you’ll tune in to the Acropolis web page in time to hear the ceremony of opening today. (They have a video embedded in the web site, but don’t say what time. Presumably quite early U.S. time) Print PDF
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Christopher Hitchens writes eloquently in Vanity Fair about Acropolis Museum. Just one of many world wide articles.
Yesterday it was mythology in a book, today myths strut on the stage. Destination: Greece Read/See: Medea, by Euripides (Legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece) Oedipus and Antigone, two plays by Sophocles, (Legends from the Royal Family of Thebes) In a graduate school seminar, I became fixated on traveling to Greece. The professor showed [...]
When you visit Greece, it helps to know a bit about the mythology, gods and heroes. This is particularly true if you want to enjoy the Parthenon in Athens and understand the current controversy over the British Museum vs. Greece. The recommended Mythology by Edith Hamilton reveals that ancient Greeks were good story tellers.
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