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| Seoul Korea - Beautiful steps around the world courtesy of Kevin Lowry |
It's been a while since we've been around the world, armchair style, so thought I'd meander about and see what I could find. We've traversed the continents, our backpacks filled mostly with fiction, although I remember seeing a few travel and historical books mixed in with our reads. Time to delve a bit deeper and see what we can see. This week we'll trek east of the Prime Meridian and start at the North Pole with Hampton Sides and his thriller chiller of a tale - In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette.
Then drop down into Siberia with George Kennan's Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
before exploring a bit of China with Peter Hessler's River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.
I have a hankering to follow the Silk road across to the Mediterranean sea with Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road where I'll settle for a while on the Turquoise coast for a breather.
Join me in exploring East of the Prime Meridian.
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History of the Medieval World
Chapter 58 Foreign and Domestic Relations pp 442 - 449
Chapter 59 The Second Caliphate pp 450 - 457
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Thanks for hosting Robin - Sorry for the duplicates in 1 thru 3 - obviously I had some trouble linking up today!
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