Travelling in Concord
This blog is about books and ideas. The first three quotations are found in Maryanne Wolf's book, Proust and the Squid. Anna Quindlen: "In books have I traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own." Marcel Proust: "I believe that reading ... [is] that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." Proust: "If we still happen today to leaf through those books of another time, it is for no other reason than that they are the only calendars we have kept of days that have vanished, and we hope to see reflected on their pages the dwellings and the ponds which no longer exist." Henry David Thoreau: "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." The geographical locations are not the places where I read the books. I am naming other countries I have travelled to, just to make my map more accurate.
Planned Dates
2009-01-01 to 2026-03-31
Countries
35
Trip Map
Trip Entries
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1
The Tao of Travel
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Mashad, Iran -
2
The Temptations of Big Bear, and other books
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Peshawar, Pakistan -
3
Gabriel García Márquez versus Thomas Wolfe
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Amritsar, Punjab, India -
4
Facing the Congo, by Jeffrey Tayler
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Lisala, Équateur, Congo - The Dem. Repub. -
5
Back in my snug parlour
Monday, August 15, 2011
Herat, Afghanistan -
6
Mr Cage's Secret
Friday, September 09, 2011
Madrid, Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands -
7
Robert Mugabe versus global warming
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -
8
Some books about China
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Asuncion, Paraguay -
9
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
Friday, April 20, 2012
Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina -
10
Chad Harbach's "The Art of Fielding"
Monday, April 23, 2012
Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina -
11
The Non-baiyat of Ed Khayyam
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Puerto Montt, Lake District, Chile -
12
Tearing up the pea patch
Friday, April 27, 2012
Cochabamba, Bolivia -
13
Mark Cocker's Loneliness and Time
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Cusco, Peru -
14
Some more books about baseball
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala -
15
Bruce Chatwin
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Oaxaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico -
16
The Glory of their Times [baseball again]
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico -
17
Joseph Boyden's "Through Black Spruce"
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Ouarzazate, Morocco -
18
Pierre Bayard's "How to talk about books not read"
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Oran, Algeria -
19
"Between Man and Beast" by Monte Reel, 2013
Friday, April 04, 2014
Tamanrasset, Algeria -
20
"Keon and Me" by Dave Bidini, 2013
Friday, April 04, 2014
Agadez, Niger -
21
"The Orenda" by Joseph Boyden, 2013
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -
22
The Heart of the World, Ian Baker, 2004
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Kpalime, Togo -
23
Snow, Orhan Pamuk, 2005
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Lagos, Nigeria -
24
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, 2009
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Yaounde, Cameroon -
25
Ismail Kadare, The Successor
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Ruhengeri, Rwanda -
26
National labels
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Bujumbura, Burundi -
27
Going Beyond
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Kigoma, Tanzania -
28
Turgenev, Sherwood Anderson, and Hemingway
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Lusaka, Zambia -
29
Canadian stories and New York stories
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Zomba, Malawi -
30
The Asiatics, Fred Prokosch, part 1
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wadi Halfa, Sudan -
31
The Asiatics, Fred Prokosch, part 2
Friday, July 25, 2014
Bangui, Central African Republic -
32
The Asiatics, Fred Prokosch, part 3
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt -
33
On the origin of the mathematician
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Pokhara, Nepal -
34
Graham Greene
Friday, December 18, 2015
Kandy, Sri Lanka -
35
Sir Gavin de Beer, Early Travellers in the Alps
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Spiez, Bern, Switzerland
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36
Goin' down
Sunday, April 09, 2017
Antananarivo, Madagascar -
37
Democracy and Autocracy
Monday, March 14, 2022
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
38
Democracy and Autocracy, part 2
Monday, March 14, 2022
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
39
1619 and 1620
Monday, March 21, 2022
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
40
Empty Planet, published 2019
Friday, September 23, 2022
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
41
How smart people can be so wrong about A.I.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
42
How artificial intelligence threatens humans
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia -
43
Canine parable for a possible future
Thursday, May 04, 2023
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
44
Robot asks: What is it like to be a human?
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia -
45
How different are humans and A.I.s ?
Thursday, May 04, 2023
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
46
Fiddling while Rome burns
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
47
More clerihews
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
48
Away You'll Never Be
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
49
Ultra-Processed People, by Chris Van Tulleken
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
