Books Set in Croatia It’s time for book club and this month I am sharing books set in Croatia. This one was a little harder than books set in Italy, but I found a few good ones. I also started a couple I didn’t finish. Croatia is a little country, and while it is big …
Books Set in Italy Last month I started my online book club and asked for your recommendations for books set in Italy. I want to get your input on your favorite reads set in places we are visiting. I am mostly looking for fiction or creative nonfiction. While I love travelogues, I don’t need guidebooks. I want to …
September Book Club Recommendations One of the things I will miss while traveling in Europe is my book club. Granted, we mostly chat, eat delicious food, and drink wine, but I am also encouraged to read books that I might not choose myself. Most of the time, the books turn out to be really good. …
In Scandinavian folklore, there are little magical people who help take care of animals on the farm called Tomtens (or tomtes, or nisse or tomtenisse). According to Wikipedia: Tomtens are typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. It is no taller than three feet, and has a long white beard and colorful …
This is a pretty cool book that I contributed a few essays to. It will make you want to hop on a plane and head to somewhere in Latin America! This compilation of travel narratives provides an alternative to the glossy, tourist brochure-type analysis of Latin America. Packed with tales of travels from Tijuana to …
Some people are really into canoeing. If youre one of them, or wish you were, pick up the 20th-anniversary edition of . Jacobson has gathered his friends together to produce a very thorough guide to canoeing northern rivers. This hefty tome to wilderness canoeing starts with how to research a river and ends with a …
There is no need to hike naked to a visitor center after your boat is capsized and pinned to a rock midriver. Your friends dont have to almost die from hypothermia crossing a lake because you chose to save the gear first. These things happened to Alan Kesselheim and you can learn from his mistakes …
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Barry Lopez is a master of literary non-fiction, but even he occasionally has trouble finding the right words to describe the landscapes he so aptly writes about. Which is why he, along with managing editor, Debra Gwartney, has compiled a tome of evocative terms and their definitions that describe the American landscape. (Trinity University …
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There is nothing new about romanticizing the Old West. Even as the days of get along little doggies were beginning to wane, writers and artists were longing for years gone by. Caroline Lockhart was one of those writers, who, in the early part of the last century wrote tales of the Wild West, even when …
Grizzly bears have always been contentious, portrayed as man-killers and livestock-raiders; the embodiment of cruelty to some and wildness to others. Its apropos that at a time when courts are struggling with the legality of delisting the great bear from the Federal Endangered Species list, Mike Lapinski would write his book, , chronicling the hard …
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