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Shogun by James Clavell
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The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times by Anthony Depalma
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla
Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland by A. Th. van Deursen
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About meTwenty-five years ago, I took a job on Wall Street, moved into a Brooklyn brownstone and began exploring New York. The city is a walker’s paradise, and as foot is my favorite form of travel, I rack up hundreds of miles on the streets each year. My passion for New York led me to write The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan, a novel of New Amsterdam through the eyes of a sharp-tongued bride who comes among the first families in 1624. Visit www.BillsBrownstone.com for more on the book and to read an excerpt of the first 50 pages. Find the book at Amazon.
My other passion is adventure travel. I am the founder of GORP.com, the early Internet era’s leading community for outdoor recreation and adventure travel. My travel writing has covered everything from Rocky Mountain wilderness to ancient cities of Southeast Asia. You can read many of these tales at BillsBrownstone.com. I always love to swap travel stories if you want to drop me a line.
About my libraryYou will find three types of books in my library. First is historical fiction, which I love to read as well as write. New York stories are favorites and I hope you will find some that interest you (along with my Mevrouw). Others cover American history, and my favorite historical novel of all time is set in the Far East - Shogun by James Clavell.
The second type is history, much of which is related to New York. Other history books indulge my interest in adventure travel, which is fueled by the experiences of Europeans as they explored around the world and the clash of cultures that so frequently resulted.
Then there’s everything else, which ranges from science to books on storytelling to pulp fiction.
Homepagehttp://www.BillsBrownstone.com
Real nameBill Greer
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the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
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the beans and squashes, which give us life.
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which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
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that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- iroquois prayer
posted by theoldman at 12:20 pm (EST) on May 28, 2009