When you realize that Saint Bernadette most likely saw a fairy and not the Virgin you've made a key discovery about the very core of France. Bernadette indeed saw something in the cave that day along the roiling Gave de Pau…
The FULL Travel library is available here You already know we're book hounds here at Around the World in Eighty Years. Heck, the name itself is an ode to the literature of travel. I never go anywhere without a…
Any interest in a story that involves tax-evasion, Swiss bank accounts, imaginary archaeologists, the mafia, bribery, money-laundering, art thieves, reclusive billionaires, ethically challenged CEOs, obsessed police investigators, and the world’s most incredible archaeological treasures? Pulitzer Prize finalists Jason Felch and…
First up, some apologies. This post was due way back in June but as my trips to Haiti and then to Finland came and went I got caught up in a million other things. So, sorry about that. But here…
What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in. 11. Riding the Iron Rooster. Paul Theroux I’ve always thought that after five minutes with Theroux I’d want to sock him in the face. …
What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in. 6. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Robert Louis Stevenson I agree with Junius Maltby (The Pastures of Heaven), Travels with…
The national debt is growing out of control, a vicious and divisive political climate inhibits the nation, the moneyed elite are running the government, economic collapse and financial meltdown put millions out of work, foreign military deployments are a constant…
My high school history teacher was a Classicist. His infatuation with the Greco-Roman societies had taken him on travels throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. He had learned Greek and Latin and had read Homer in the original. He was…
My intention was to stick exclusively with reviews of travel books on this site. But I'm such an opinionated literature hound that I've already fallen off track. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The…
Ok. I'm going to get right to it - I HATED this book. My Pillars of the Earth Review is going to be harsh. Look. I know this book came out in 1989 but it still gets so much attention,…
