The folks at Concierge.com (a site somehow associated with Conde Nast Traveler) have compiled a list of the greatest travel books. (Actually, the list was compiled by an allstar panel that included Jared Diamond, Robert Kaplan, Jan Morris, Paul Theroux and Gore Vidal.) At 86 books, it’s a lengthy list, although some of […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Back in the world
I’m blogging this afternoon from the 4th floor of the Vancouver Public Library. The VPL is housed in Library Square, an impressive structure that includes space for an office complex, shops and restaurants, as well as the library itself.
The 10-day vipassana retreat in Merritt was my sixth in the tradition taught by Goenka-ji. […]
Dateline Vancouver
Blogging today from the lounge on the fourth floor of the YWCA Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. I recommend the Y to travellers visiting this city. It combines postindustrial standards of hypercleanliness, bed-and-breakfast standards of gemuetlichheit, Japanese standards of efficient use of space, and (just for those who need to feel as though […]
hosomichi
here’s another retread from last January, slightly added and with a new installment at the end:
The Narrow Road: I know of no finer use of Internet technology to illuminate “foreign” literatures than this site devoted to Basho Matsuo’s Oku no hosomichi (”The Narrow Road to the Deep North”), the ne plus ultra of travel literature. […]
