Post #112316 by Gigantalope on Fri, Sep 3, 2004 7:45 PM

The Johnson's are wonderful- just finished "4 years in paradise"...the photos really made that book alive. I just found out there is a museum of thier lives in Kansas.

Theroux sells himself along side Bruce Chatwin (mostly wrote in the 1980s) who is also a fine writer, and less smug.

Blair Bros' "Ring of Fire" (late 1980s) was hard to put down once started.

"Around the world on Two Wheels" by Robert Fulton was really inviting...(Traveling alone around the world in the 1930s.)

Bill Bryson once wrote that the phrase "What-Ever" is Californian for F-off".

Not a day goes by that I don't think of that.

This is really fun!
Creating christmas list from these.

[ Edited by: Gigantalope on 2004-09-03 19:55 ]