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Category Archives: Europe
France and Canada share a border (really)
Canada and France share a maritime border, despite the ejection of France from North America in the Seven Years’ War. Article 6 of the 1763 Treaty of Paris allowed France to retain the tiny islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon in the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Cartography, Europe, History, Maps
Tagged Canada, France, Seven Years' War, Treaty of Paris
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A rare literary find and more stuff you need to see
A papyrus of part of the Iliad has been discovered in a Roman-era tomb of mummies in Egypt. “The papyrus contains a passage from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, specifically the section known as the ‘Catalogue of Ships’…” from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Middle East, Writing
Tagged Birds, book publishing, Cinema, Egypt, paperbacks
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Discover Britain with Geograph
Geograph: You don’t have to be an Anglophile to get lost in this wonderful project. It’s a bit like like Google maps, but crowdsourced – “The Geograph® Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for … Continue reading
Posted in Cartography, Europe, Maps, Photography
Tagged Britain, Cartography, Photography, United Kingdom
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Snow Joke
Depending on one’s point of view, we have either been cursed or blessed with an abundance of snow this season. Which ever side prevails here in the former U.S. of A., our vocabulary for snow is basic. But the Swedes … Continue reading
Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower
Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the end of the nineteenth … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Europe, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Hokusai, Japaonisme, lithography, Paris, woodblock prints
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Paris 1970
I recently learned about an amateur photography contest called ‘C’était Paris en 1970’ (‘This Was Paris in 1970’), whose roughly fourteen thousand participants produced seventy thousand black-and-white prints and thirty thousand color slides of the capital in the midst of … Continue reading
Alice is back home
Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the most important of only 22 known surviving copies of the first and subsequently withdrawn edition. The book … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Writing
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Bodleian Library, Lewis Carroll, Oxford University
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Where in the world
I recently spotted the photo above on a random book blog. There was no attribution nor indication where or when the photograph was taken. However, I had the uncanny notion that at some unknown point in time I had actually … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Amersfoort, Netherlands, Photography
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there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds
“A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical … Continue reading
Top Secret
The 1984 action comedy Top Secret! contains an odd sequence set in a Swedish bookstore. Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, and Peter Cushing acted the entire scene backward, and the filmmakers then reversed this performance to produce a dreamlike atmosphere in which … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film, Uncategorized
Tagged Bookstores on film, Cinema, Peter Cushing
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