Adventure Bookshelf

There is a nice essay in the Washington Post by Garrison Keillor revealing the genesis of his lifelong love of books.
“I plopped down and read them, one after the other. Nobody yelled at me, nobody told me to stop reading and sit with my feet up and not move….I chose to enter a privileged world [...]

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
- Louis Lamour
Well, as we head into December we have come to the end of our first [...]

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon…
Good old Harold, living proof that quick thinking and imagination will take a person far in this world. Equipped only with his trusty purple crayon he journeys through a landscape of creativity - into forests, across oceans, through the sky in a balloon. A seashore picnic [...]

“Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.”
- Walter Sickers
If you love a book, set it free.
BookCrossing.com is a very cool website where members can release books into the wild and then track their journeys online. The process involves registering the book you intend to [...]

The Wanderlust has taught me . . . it has whispered to my heart
Things all you stay-at-homes will never know.
…The Wanderlust has blest me . . . in a ragged blanket curled,
I’ve watched the gulf of Heaven foam with stars…

- Robert Service
Actions not words. - In 1947 Norwegian explorer & ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl [...]

…”I’ve always thought,” said Rainsford, “that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.”
For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, “No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game.” He sipped his wine. [...]