Bosnia (October 5, 2013) Sitting early one morning in this train compartment traveling from Mostar to Sarajevo, I wasn’t looking for milk. But it’s very possible that as I looked out at the foggy Bosnian landscape I remembered someone who once was. The story is recounted in Chris Hedges’ book War is a Force that […]
Shusaku Endo’s Silence As A Travel Book
In 1989, Martin Scorsese, the iconic American movie director who was still processing the enormous controversy surrounding his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ, read a book while riding a bullet train in Japan. The book gripped him. Once back in the United States he secured the rights to make it into a movie. The movie, […]
Expanding Awareness Of Geography Through Travel
One morning on Ko Chang, Thailand, while sitting by the sea and preparing to breakfast on a pineapple pancake and a pineapple shake, I read a puzzling line in Simon Winchester’s book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. Winchester pointed out that the 1969 film Krakatoa: East of Java contains a glaring geographical error in […]