The Beaten Path
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Final Carnival
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Text: Brazil and La Plata: the Personal Record of a Cruise by Charles Samuel Stewart The city of Rio, from Brazil and La Plata. “...
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Playtime Down Under
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Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain, Vol. 1, 1903. “Presently, a quarter of a mile away you would see a...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Recuperation in Java, Indonesia
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Text: Life in Java, with sketches of the Javanese by William Barrington d'Almeida, 1864. The Javanese, Life in Java “ As the r...
Monday, April 30, 2012
Give The Sun No Chance
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"As we draw nearer to the sacred Ganges, the crowd of pilgrims that is wending its way thither, grows larger, more cosmopolitan, and ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Time Fears the Pyramids
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Text: Our Journey Around the World, Francis and Harriet Clark, 1895 “ Everything fears time, but time fears the pyramids” –ancient Arab...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Exotic Canary Islands and Morocco
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Texts: Letters from the Canary Islands, by Daniel Jay Browne, Lyceum Press, Boston, 1834 Our Journey Around the World, Frances E. ...
Antiquity to Modernity
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Text: The American in Europe Influences of the Ancients “Hail to thee, Italy! Land of sun and beauty—land of liberty and despotism...
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