Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
With pandemic-related travel restrictions still in place around the world, we allay our wanderlust by reading books by the great explorers.
Only recently did we discover that Thor Heyerdahl, the intrepid Norwegian explorer who wrote Kon-Tiki (1948), spent time in the South Seas some 10 years before that famous…Continue Reading
Now is a great time to read about places you’ve visited or would like to visit in the future. Below are some travel-related books, on our shelves for years, that were written by or about authors,…Continue Reading
Decades ago, when I (Charles) was in graduate school at Harvard, a well-traveled classmate from France gave…Continue Reading
