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...over the globe. Each volume, printed on thick, creamy paper, features a foldout map. Otherwise, there's no fixed format for The Armchair Traveller. The first four titles are as different in tone and approach as the smooth, expansive river that dominates Along the Ganges is from the wild Celtic waters in the sailing odyssey Cape Wrath to Finisterre. New works arriving in 2006 serve up a gastro-tour of Italy, a road trip through China and a memoir of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. What unites each account is the authors' passion for travel. Loh and Behold Avant-garde...
...have pretty eclectic musical tastes—I’m a fan of Celtic and world music. One of my favorite bands is Old Blind Dogs, a traditional Scottish folk group with fiddles, flutes, and bagpipes; I’m very depressed because it looks like they’re about to break up. I haven’t had the guts to have my roommates listen to any of my music yet, so I don’t know what their reaction will...
...European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages) must be founded to help the minor languages - and thereby cultures - prosper in a globalized Europe and world. Vinh Prag Arhus, Denmark Thanks for this fascinating article. As a London-based Cornishman, I'm surprised that you omitted the Celtic links between Cornwall and Brittany. Nor did you include the Catalans, whose domain stretches from around Béziers in France to Barcelona in Spain. The more that globalized trade and political union try to make us homogeneous, the more need there is for a stronger local personal identity. Even...
...these times. Bono and the rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness of punk, refined into lyrical morality plays...
...Harvard College Celtic Club Showcase