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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Tourist Map of Literature
While not really a map this simple tool does map affinity based on user’s literary tastes. It allows you to plug in any author you like and then it shows other writers whom readers of your literary choice also selected. … Continue reading
Flora and Fauna
The wonderful, eclectic webcomic site XKCD mapped the most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by iNaturalist users. I’m not surprised that bumble bees were such a popularly observed animal — the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) … Continue reading
How well do you know your fairy tales
Most folks who grew up in the English-speaking know the fairy tale of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” In the story, an exasperating trespasser breaks into the home of three bears. The intruder eats their food and breaks furniture before … Continue reading
The house was quiet and the world was calm
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm By Wallace Stevens The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet … Continue reading
Pictures of the floating world
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fondness for Japanese woodblock prints. I recently found an old link to the Library of Congress page with over 2500 hi-resolution scans of Japanese woodcuts on their site. … Continue reading
Stranger Than Kindness
A major donation by Australian singer and writer Nick Cave to an Oxfam bookshop in Hove on England’s south coast has drawn fans to browse the items from his personal library. The 2,000 volumes come from the recent Stranger Than Kindness art … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Brighton, England, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, secondhand bookshops
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Don’t Get Lost
The Underground Electric Company in London published this series of posters in 1925. The set was designed by Kathleen Stenning. Each bold image promotes catching the Tube to escape the predictably unpredictable English weather.
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Tagged London, London Underground, poster art, Public transport
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the first cut is the deepest
The impressive artwork of Joanathan Bessaci includes maps cut out and layered to form images. I presently work with old Michelin maps dated from roughly 1920 to 1970. I use old French Michelin maps because I like their color and texture but … Continue reading
Everyone wants to see it
Like millions of other people, seeing the aurora borealis had long been on my list of travel goals. I was overjoyed eight years ago to finally experience the Northern Lights in Iceland after visits to Norway, Alaska and Iceland. Surprisingly, … Continue reading
How Amsterdam Was Built
I have visited hundreds of cities over the decades, but Amsterdam is the one place that I have returned to over and over. If you have been there, it’s probably one of your favorite cities too. And, if you haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Film, Uncategorized
Tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands, urban planning
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