Book Review: “Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient...
Around the World in Eighty Years Last week, New York’s Metropolitan Museum announced that it will return 19 objects from King Tut’s tomb to Egypt – 19 small bits and fragments. The Met has been quick...
View ArticleBook Review: Pillars of the Earth
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleBook Review – His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleThe Long Walk – Would You Rather Have Questions or Answers?
Around the World in Eighty Years I guess I’m a little slow to these things sometimes but I just…literally just…found out that Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom was...
View ArticleBook Review: “Anglo Saxon Britain” by Sally Crawford
Around the World in Eighty Years 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....
View ArticleBooks of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time...
Around the World in Eighty Years For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite...
View ArticleBook Review: “Early Eighteenth Century Britain” by Lorna Coventry
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleBooks of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time...
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleBooks of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time...
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleBook Review: “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett
Around the World in Eighty Years Let’s see if I can make this short and sweet. I don’t like this book. If you’d like to read Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder” in it’s origional, high- quality version,...
View ArticleBooks of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time...
Around the World in Eighty Years 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,...
View ArticleBook Review: “Chasing Aphrodite”
Around the World in Eighty Years Any interest in a story that involves tax-evasion, Swiss bank accounts, imaginary archaeologists, the mafia, bribery, money-laundering, art thieves, reclusive...
View ArticleThe Cow-Headed Man
Around the World in Eighty Years In my parents basement there was a series of colorful plywood doors. Behind the doors were piles of yellowed books crammed into a dark recess in the foundation. They...
View ArticleBooks of the Marvels of the World – 21 Best Travel Books of All Time
Around the World in Eighty Years For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite...
View ArticleThe ULTIMATE Travel Resource Library – Part I:New Mexico, Colorado, France,...
Around the World in Eighty Years The full library is available here Part II is here — You already know we’re book hounds here at Around the World in Eighty Years. Heck, the name itself is an ode to...
View ArticleThe ULTIMATE Travel Resource Library – Part II: Finland, Japan, Mexico,...
Around the World in Eighty Years The FULL Travel library is available here Part I: Colorado, France, Haiti, New Mexico and Vietnam available here You already know we’re book hounds here at Around the...
View ArticleThe ULTIMATE Travel Resource Library – Part III: England, Ireland, Scotland,...
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleFrom the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall: Travelers Best, Worst and Most...
Around the World in Eighty Years “We made our way down the street and arrived at the first intersection where one of the soldiers, who under the dark street lights looked to be only about 15 years old,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography
Around the World in Eighty Years 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...
View ArticleBook Review: The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1) by John Twelve Hawks
Around the World in Eighty Years Pretty tiresome tripe. Crap, really. Just opening to the first page will pain your sensibilities. Essentially, there exists a group of people with special powers to...
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