Read this book. It will make you a better person.
Go get yourself a copy right now!
Quotes:
“If it takes a brutally divisive election and concerns over American authoritarianism to get you to read, maybe you should have started earlier.”
- Carlos Lozada in the CJR.
Friday Photo Quiz #10
The answer to last week’s quiz: That was the handsome little capital of Finland, Helsinki, and I’m happy to say that before next month is out I’ll have the chance to enjoy two weeks of lazy, high summer making like a duck on the lake in Finland.
Now on to this week’s quiz. Because the answer may not be readily apparent, here are two photos for this week’s country, both from the greater capital area. Can you name the city? The country?
Leave your best guess as a comment. I’ll put all the correct answers into a hat, draw one, and the winner of the drawing gets a copy of the audiobook version of my book Common Sense and Whiskey. It may be that the winner must be in the USA for the Audible.com download code to work.
Win free stuff every Friday this summer. New photo every Friday, drawing the next Thursday, winner notified by email Friday. Good luck.
Now: What’s your guess in this week’s quiz? Go ahead, give it a try. Guesses accepted.
Weekend Reading
Here are a few thoughtful articles for your consideration this weekend, along with this lovely landscape from Watson’s Bay, in New South Wales. Click the photo to enlarge it.
Now, on to the smart stuff:
Making the Subarctic Bloom by Cody Punter at The Walrus.
Generation Putin by Natalia Zorkaya at Eurozine.com
The Search for Intelligent Life by Justin E. H. Smith at Berfrois
The Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed the course of history at nypesuppe.blogspot.com
The Time of Our Lives by Raymond Tallis at thenewatlantis.com
Out in the Cold: One Last Audiobook Excerpt
The Parks Canada recreation of the first North American Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland – complete with iceberg. Click to enlarge.
There’s just time to sneak in another excerpt from my latest book, Out in the Cold: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada before the audiobook version goes live on Audible.com any day now. In this clip, sailors set out a thousand years ago from Greenland in search of what would become Vinland, a tiny settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland, a place called L’Anse aux Meadows today.
It’s me speaking; I narrate the book. I hope you enjoy it.
You can get the written version of Out in the Cold on Amazon, here, and the audiobook versions of my other books here:
Common Sense and Whiskey on Audible.
Visiting Chernobyl on Audible.
And here are several more written and spoken excerpts from Out in the Cold.
Quotes:
Brexit, which was supposed to be about “taking back control” from Brussels, has actually given a great deal of control to a Northern Irish party that no one in Britain votes for.
- Fintan O’Toole op-ed in the New York Times.
Belfast Castle, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Weekend Reading
Weekend reading that will make you sing:
The Hardest Border from BBC News
The Legacy and Lessons of Zbigniew Brzezinski by Robert E. Hunter at Lobelog.com
Natural history: Thoreau’s debt to Darwin by Randall Fuller at nature.com
Letter From Tohoku by Ramona Bajema at milkenreview.org
Taken by Pirates by Jeffrey Gettleman in the New York Times
Out in the Cold: Another Audiobook Excerpt
Here is another excerpt from my latest book, Out in the Cold: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. The audiobook version should be live on Audible.com any day now. This clip takes you along on a midnight cruise among the icebergs in Greenland.
It’s me speaking; I narrate the book. I hope you enjoy it.
You can get the written version of Out in the Cold on Amazon, here, and the audiobook versions of my other books here:
Common Sense and Whiskey on Audible.
Visiting Chernobyl on Audible.
And here are several more written excerpts from Out in the Cold.
