Literature
Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog. One change that has [...]
Destination: Earth Books: Wind and the Rock by Ann Zwinger The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose Maybe I’m being species-centric here, but I’m assuming that everyone who is reading this is interested in traveling somewhere on the planet Earth. Therefore, I’m also [...]
Just as we got rolling with reader suggestions coming in for the 10 places I need books for, I found these articles. Recent travel literature reviewed by Don George at National Geographic. Eight Books You Shouldn’t Travel Without by Frank Bures at World Hum. And I almost forgot about Brooklyn Nomad’s piece with good recommendations. [...]
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Now it is your turn. I need some suggestions for books to read for these specific places. I have some books in mind, but want to get recommendations from people who have been there, read that. In some cases, a reader has asked me for help. In others I plan a trip myself and want [...]
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The white house stands at the top of a hill, just a little past two neat stone pillars with the words “Greta Hall” inscribed on them. As I drove up the drive and parked my minuscule rental car in the turnaround, I couldn’t help feeling a bit of amazement and awe. For months, I had [...]
Transcendentalism is fascinating not just for the compelling figures and ideas that made up the movement but also for the glimpse it affords us into the nineteenth century New England from which it sprang. While Transcendentalist thinkers got their inspiration in German philosophy, English poetry, and Far Eastern spirituality, the central ideas of Transcendentalism are [...]
Here we are in the brave post-modern, post-futurist world, and in this brave new world, we have options. Oh, boy, do we have options! No longer tied to the dog-eared paperback, or the family-favorite with scribblings in the margins from Great Aunts, we seek our literature with new forms of delivery. This rant, of course, [...]
