By David Stilwill on Mar 11, 2008 in Author Feature, Featured, First Person Narrative, Non-Fiction, Survival | 0 Comments
Source: Wikipedia
Raconteur: One who tell stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.
Author of over 100 novels, storyteller Louis L’Amour is certainly best known for his westerns and that certainly is the genre with which his name will always be remembered. He did venture at times though from his standard, leaving behind his most recognizable [...]
By David Stilwill on Nov 30, 2007 in Author Feature, First Person Narrative, Libraries | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By David Stilwill on Nov 19, 2007 in Desert Island, Featured, Fiction, First Person Narrative, Survival | 1 Comment
“September 30, 1659. I , poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.”
Just eleven years [...]
By David Stilwill on Nov 12, 2007 in First Person Narrative, Global Travel, Motorcycle Travel, Non-Fiction | 1 Comment
Reader Beware: Because of this book men and women have been known to leave their jobs and take to the road. Over the years it has changed many lives. It could change yours.
In 1973 Ted Simon left England on his Triumph motorcycle. Beginning a four year - 78,000 mile journey around the world. In the [...]
