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A sensitive essay in photographs and words of contemporary China – Photographs by Gun Kessle Over the years, I have collected a great number of travelogues from China and other nations throughout the Middle East and Asia. Probably half of … Continue reading
Louis L’Amour novels are in my family’s blood. My grandfather has been collecting L’Amour’s Westerns for as long as I can remember, stacking the shelves of his Stormy Lake cabin with them. He’s read each one of them several times … Continue reading
How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First . . . and Came Back Shaking My Head Years ago when my family had Netflix, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern was one of our favorite food shows, and we were sad … Continue reading
In Search of Marco Polo and Other Adventures While my commitment to reading one Asian travelogue per week this Fall has been short-lived — I finished Rhythms of a Himalayan Village in a week, but this one took much longer … Continue reading
Few books have been so long on my to-read list as this, Thor Heyerdah’s epic rafting account, Kon-Tiki. Ever since I first caught scent of adventurers’ tales and travelogues back in high school, I have been on the lookout for … Continue reading
As we’ve settled into a new home during these COVID years, I’ve unpacked nearly all of the boxes of books I’ve had in storage. They’re now on the shelves, but most of them remain as unread as ever. In my … Continue reading
Ventures among Men and Mountains My brother’s favorite book in college was Into Thin Air (1997), and it was his recommendation that first got me interested in the outdoor adventure novels that still thrill me. That book, which I loved, … Continue reading
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The road had gripped me and would not let me go. By the time Jack London sat down to write this non-fiction account of his early life as a train-hopping hobo, he had already built a name for himself in … Continue reading
A Trucker’s Tale of Life on the Road Would it surprise you if I told you that I’m a trucker? Well, not in the traditional sense of the word. No long-haul, tractor-trailer driver would allow me the moniker, “trucker.” But … Continue reading
With illustrations by Les Kouba As I mentioned recently in my review of The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, I often enjoy reading books of local color when I travel to a new location. Recently, my family traveled through northern … Continue reading
