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Books for the Arab World in Troubled Times Minaret of Djam, Afghanistan Destination: Afghanistan Book: The Minaret of Djam: A Journey Into Afghanistan by Freya Stark (Org. publ. 1970; new paperback, December 2010 released by Palgrave MacMillan) Another in our series of places that we would like to visit in the Middle East, if the [...]
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: South Dakota Book: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) A GUEST POST by Kristen Gough The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, “I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas.” Print [...]
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Place: Calabria, Italy Book: Old Calabria by Norman Douglas (NEW Reissued–2010) I love to time travel with writers from the 19th or early 20th centuries and even earlier. I enjoy seeing a place and its people brought to life in an era before antennas sprouted on top of every mud hut and CNN images reached [...]
