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...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 murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
Several centuries later, José González, a young musician of Argentinean descent raised among the fjörds of Sweden, embarks on a similar aesthetic odyssey with his debut album “Veneer...
...Americans in Gush Katif, the disengagement marks the bitter climax of an odyssey that spans a generation, one that has taken people like the Hilburgs from the streets of Brooklyn to the dusty farmland of the Gaza Strip. I spent a week with the Hilburgs and other U.S.-born settlers in the enclaves of Gush Katif as they prepared to uproot again. Their saga provides a glimpse of the honest dreams that inspired the struggle to realize the Zionist vision of Israel--and why even harder changes are required if that vision is to survive...
...action hero--not that he wants to be one. "I think it's an easy way to make a huge amount of money--that's for sure," says Lucas, 34, who stars in Stealth (opening this Friday). The film is Top Gun meets 2001: A Space Odyssey, and his main co-star is a computer-controlled fighter plane with a mind...
...That evening?s gig was played to an even smaller house at the no-less-fine Odyssey Bookstore in South Hadley, Mass. There had indeed been a couple of Yanks fans among the Vermonters, but as I was now gravitating closer to the Hub I was entering the realm inhabited exclusively by devotees of the scarlet hose. I read about the seventh game of last year?s ALCS, then opened it up for discussion, which was almost exclusively about the afternoon?s announcement: Schilling was headed for the bullpen, probably as the closer...