Death & Life on the Nile, Agatha Christie’s Egypt
by Veronica Hackethal “Gosh, a funeral procession,” exclaims a fellow passenger, with typical English understatement. He points dockside where a wedding procession had passed minutes…
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Agatha Christie’s Torquay
by DJ Coode Throughout her long life, one place in particular remained close to Agatha Christie’s heart. Tucked away in the southwest corner of England…
Winston Churchill’s Poetic Speeches of World War II
by Paul Millward In 1940, from deep beneath the buildings of Whitehall in London, in an underground complex known as the Cabinet War Rooms, Winston…
The Fear of Stephen King and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Francis McGovern The fear was mine, and the goal of this trip was to face it and honor it, by driving from Fenway Park…
A Meeting of Minds: John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts at the Lab in Monterey
by Victor A. Walsh In the gray light of early morning, the weathered, batten board building stands like a phantom from an earlier time when…
Journeying to the Wilderness of Iceland With Jules Verne
by Jacquelin Cangro As we wind around inlets and coves along the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland, I grip the armrest harder. Our destination is…
The Defiant Spirit of Spinalonga, an Island of Exiles
by Inka Piegsa-Quischotte Some of the most compelling images of Victoria Hislop’s book The Island are to be found in the opening paragraphs. She evokes…
On the Bolivian Trail of Che Guevara, a Literary Guerilla
by Stephen Eisenhammer The dust lay smooth. No vehicle had passed in over an hour, as I sat gazing at the grainy pages in my…
Sabil of Naguib Mahfouz in Cairo, Egypt
by Robin Graham I dreamt of my mentor, Shaykh Mustafa Abd al-Raziq when he was the head of al-Azhar. As he entered the main office,…
Peruvian Amazon Ayahuasca’s Influence on Great Writers
by Kelly Jean Egan My second to last night in the jungle finds me in the passenger seat of a ramshackle vehicle driving to the…