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Category: Journeys

Around the world by highways, byways, and waterways.

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03/20/2023

Retracing His Steps

Following Dylan Thomas in Laugharne

by Daniel Hudon

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12/15/2022

a modern pilgrimage

A teacher describes his less than straightforward return to Medjugorje

by John Hartley

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12/05/2022

Tracking Wolves in the Wild Heart of Italy

Observing the elusive Appenine wolves

by Naomi Elster

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07/18/2022

Travel in Time of War

Balancing guilt, exhaustion, and joy in Italy

by Olga Kovalenko

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07/14/2022

Matter

Where's your Avalon?

by Megan Harlan

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06/27/2022

The Status of the Book in the Age of Digital Media 

A trip to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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04/18/2022

Diving the Gulf

Gazing at time's architecture

by Vincent Czyz

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04/14/2022

Department of Lost and Found

Taking the long way

by Lynn Sikkink

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09/09/2021

Driving the Jinns Away

When exorcisms become a business

by Rafiq Ebrahim

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08/26/2021

That Hidden Place

Finding Björk's Vespertine at the right time

by K.A. Liedel

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