Well I have been doing a lot of travelling through books lately. Yesterday took me to the New World again, where following Townsend, Clendinnen and others we went with Aztecs on the warpath, and a peculiarly bloody story it was. A few hours later, and we were following Barros and Correa tracing da Gama's route round the Cape of Africa and over to Calcutta. That was a voyage of extremes. Da Gama imprisoned his pilots and threw his navigational instruments overboard, putting all his faith on his own command and in God. His belief and zealotry may have taken him to India, but it didn't exactly make him tolerant of other faiths, and our journey ended in a brutal mass murder. Then having visited the New World, Africa and India, we hopped back to Germany to witness Scribner's views of popular propaganda in the German Reformation, and ended the day with humour rather than a bloodbath.
On a different note, I also decided to take a further journey into the worldwide web and try out some of google's tools. I must admit the google reader left me infinitely preferring my books. I felt overloaded with information and clutter; no tidiness there. It was a bewildering voyage. On the other hand, I found google documents rather handy and have even uploaded a bibliography on travel and literature.
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It's really fantastic to hear about your bookish travels - very inspiring!
This is definately the Radio 3 of the blogword. You can take than any way you like
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