June 2024: Wonders of the World!

I get to visit Glacier National Park this year for the first time. The more research I do for our trip, the more exciting it looks. So, my challenge is to read about wonders – natural or otherwise. Nonfiction or fiction. As the book’s setting or as history.

From the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to lists from other eras; from engineering marvels, solar system wonders – there are a lot of wonders to explore listed here on wikipedia.

What a great topic! I was thinking of that for another group I'm in! I have an older book, The Seven Wonders by Steven Saylor which is a prequel to a series. This is a book of 7 essays or short stories where the main character travels to each of the seven wonders and solves a mystery there.

Enjoy your trip to Glacier National Park, Cindy. The "Going-to-the-Sun Drive" is a spectacular scenic drive!

I'm off to check out my books for "Wonders" to read about.

Here is the link to the group wiki:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Reading_Through_Time_Challenge#Future_To...

I have a book entitled Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels that is a novel based on real events when in the 1920s a honeymoon couple tried to ride the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Fantastic theme! Although it seems that I do not have much for this on my shelves. My first idea is to listen to The Early Years: Zoo Quest for a Dragon, Quest in Paradise & Quest Under Capricorn by David Attenborough, which covers his travels in the 1950s. It is on my Audible wishlist.

One I've been meaning to get to for years: Joan Breton Connelly's The Parthenon Enigma.

I've got quite a number of books in that Wonders of Man series. This could be a good time to read some of them, see if I want to keep any, and weed out the rest for a fifth-grade teacher in my church.

I'll have finished Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris (reading it for April's "disabilities" theme), but this one would fit for anyone who wants to take on Hugo.

There are at least several interesting videos in the Great Courses – World Heritage Sites, A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt, The Cathedral, The World's Greatest Churches, probably quite a few more (links are to GC's Wondrium site) – which I can watch at my desktop computer while I nebulize for my COPD.

If I could get enough books packed away to create some clear table space, I've got a very advanced (2K+ pieces) lego puzzle of the Taj Mahal that I want to get working on, though that doesn't qualify as a book.,,,

>6 CurrerBell: Oh, Notre Dame de Paris is a great idea! I didn't think of that.

I'm not sure what I'll read, but >6 CurrerBell:'s suggestion of Notre Dame de Paris is a possibility.

I also have a nonfiction book I've been meaning to read for ages The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan. According to wikipedia "The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and the second-largest by total volume", so sounds like a natural wonder to me.

>8 kac522: That's a thought. I've got The Death and Life of the Great Lakes in TBR storage as well.

This is a potentially very rich field, depending how widely one ranges for lists of wonders. Plenty of time to ponder it though.