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Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum book review

Views: 35You are a man. You decide to sail alone around the world in a 39 foot sloop. It’s 1895. You are there. The storm arrives, you lash the rudder and sail to the edge of the map. Supposedly, they didn’t have GPS back then. But they also told you to put your child in… Continue reading Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum book review

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck book review

Views: 59Clif High told me to read this book. Steinbeck being a great American author, and given our current circumstance (imminent social order upheaval and financial collapse), it was Clif’s idea that our experience would be similar to Steinbeck’s description in this book. I would have to disagree. If you are going to read American… Continue reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck book review

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. book review

Views: 61Your eternal space journey continues. Gather the children around the thermal radiation fires and read this grade-A space science doctrine. With your great deference to corporate science and real life worship of space, I offer this magnificent collection of doctrine, dogma, and techno space religion. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.… Continue reading Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. book review

In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany book review

Views: 43This great phantasy book has a difficult stumbling block at the beginning. The first few stories are so fantastic, you may be tempted to put it away forever, but if you keep up your work, you will be rewarded with many fine phantasy tales. I especially enjoyed the Jorkens stories. In my research, and… Continue reading In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany book review

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville book review

Views: 65The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville 1322 Here’s an ancient travel book for would-be pilgrims to the Holy Land. Don’t forget vaccine passport and biological test results when you go to the high point of the world, the very center according to their maps- The Holy Land. The crusades, the pilgrimage.… Continue reading The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville book review

Paracelsus The Devil’s Doctor by Philip Ball book review

Views: 108The Devil’s Doctor. They called him that because he separated the elements from the glory of God, and declared science (magick) a wholly sundered form, made available to the worst kinds of people, Doctor MDs, snake oil salesmen who follow protocols from personages like Bill Gates, and corporate organizations like CDC, the FDA, and… Continue reading Paracelsus The Devil’s Doctor by Philip Ball book review

A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell book review

Views: 51Go with me to the sea as a rich gentleman, stealing away your 17 year old lover from a catholic girl’s school with newly acquired yacht and crew to sail her away in this romantic seagoing elopement. If you are in the gentleman’s club, and not blocked from all paths of free action and… Continue reading A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell book review

Emphyrio by Jack Vance book review

Views: 104Imagine another replacement philosophy book in the garb of so-called science fiction. Eerily similar to many other “sci-fi” books I’ve read. See Childhood’s End and Gordon Eklund, Find the Changleling, and Norstrillia by Cordwainer Smith reviews. Mark Jack Vance with the number of a man. He was certainly adept at his story. Illuminating. Don’t… Continue reading Emphyrio by Jack Vance book review

Narrative of Captain James Cook’s voyages around the world by Kippis, Andrew, 1784, book review

Views: 135Captain Cook was dispatched by his Majesty to explore the Southern Ocean and take measurements of the “eclipse”. What are they measuring on the dome, what wizard tools and rituals are we talking about? It’s a long journey. Cook made three explorations. One journey lasting more than four years away from the “British” island… Continue reading Narrative of Captain James Cook’s voyages around the world by Kippis, Andrew, 1784, book review