Thoreau’s Other Waters: The Concord River
When reading Thoreau for the first time, a reader might assume that the writer is speaking aloud his mind, giving a voice to his innermost…
Tag: travel literature
Choose Your Own Adventure: Bus Trips to Spark Your Wanderlust
By Amanda Festa The idea of the road trip is magic. It is a different kind of travel, about the journey far more than it…
Love on the Road: An Anthology of Love and (Wander)Lust
By Amanda Festa “My message will make sense to those who are willing to listen…who appreciate contradiction, nuance, and who recognize that in life there…
Taking Your Soul for a Stroll
A hundred miles on the Camino de Santiago Destination Spain – from Leon to Santiago de Compostela Dates October 15 – 26, 2012 (11…
Freya Stark’s Afghanistan
By Katherine Gypson “This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in…
Ode to England Inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro
by Zoe Smith “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I…
Ponies & Tranquility, Jane Austen’s New Forest
by Janet Halliday Trees in thick green leaf fuzz the banks of the Beaulieu River. The foliage wall is pierced occasionally by inviting, narrow inlets…
Jane Austen, A Beloved Friend in Chawton
by Helen Palmer It took a life-threatening illness and months of enforced convalescence to finally arrive at the home of a much loved friend. I…
Of Dreams and Dolls: American Girls and the Spirit of Exploration
by Katy Kelleher The first American Girl Dolls were released in 1986 by Pleasant Company, which had yet to be acquired by mega-manufacturer Mattel. I…
Apocalypse Now, A Film History & the Sacrificial Water Buffalo
by Simon Glassock Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is one of the most famous of all Hollywood films. It is a transposition of Joseph Conrad’s…