Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
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Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
June 7, 2026
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
June 3, 2026In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 1, 2026This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall
May 18, 2026Who are the Stans? What are the Stans? Where are the Stans and what in the...
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
January 30, 2026It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – by Steve Bodio
December 12, 2025The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with...




