… Theroux has written a lot about traveling by train. He has also lived in Africa. So far as I can recall he has never … that Second or Third World travel and I are not too compatible. When our 30th anniversary came up, Susan wanted … go on an African camera safari. I wanted to go to Italy. We compromised on a trip that included a game reserve near …
… and drove across the river to pick up the drummers who had come up from Nashville. A migrant countryman from Defeated … 19th-century imperial wealth depended more upon soldiers, sailors, and rulers of colonies trained at public … of the 19th-century Whig historians. As Herzen said, Green points out, Macaulay was the Scott of his generation. Dreams …
… Entries from The New Combat Contradictionary An Exercise in Interpretive … Relating to the Recent Hostilities An Army of One: soldiers who dump their girlfriends/boyfriends right before an … ostensibly to spare them the pain of long-term separation. Also The Cult of Aloneness . Black Swan-ism: idea that the …
… unequal, so many animals are; and now and then we encounter complete originals, so informal and arbitrary in their … exceedingly large, quite normal in shape. It bore five points. The right antler was heavily palmated; and instead … left the hound behind. Shortly thereafter the dog’s owner died, and no one ever came to recover him. As I used to …
… drifted Milky Way, wherever the moon is in the mind’s eye comes a calm, for the sun explodes and all day in the brain …
… Volume IX). By Ida B. Tarbell. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.00. There is no better way of understanding the … than that of delving into the past. Economic institutions come into being by growth; their virtues and defects are … of the population, the improvements made in the systems of communication, and the maintenance of a highly protective …