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Category Archives: Europe
Alice in Wonderland
It’s been a while since I shared another example from the seemingly endless versions of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. This version from the 1920s features 48 full-color illustrations by Margaret W. Tarrant. The illustrator: Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 – … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, book illustration, Lewis Carroll
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First Around The World Trip
Ever since I was indoctrinated as a young child with filiopietistic reverence for Columbus and the entire panoply of European explorers, I’ve been fascinated by their extraordinary journeys. Recently, I discovered a wonderful website that traces the route of Ferdinand … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, History, Maps, Tech
Tagged Ferdinand Magellan, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain
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The Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World ?
Over the past few decades nearly every listicle on the world’s “most beautiful bookstores” has included the incredible Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. I am embarassed to admit that although I was briefly in Porto, I never made it to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Bookshops, Porto, Portugal
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Just a postcard from Kafka
I recently stumbled on this postcard from the German National Library that is dated 1918 from Franz Kafka to his publisher Kurt Wolff. Personally, I never sent postcards to my publisher, but then again he was a terrible person. And … Continue reading
Recognition At Last
Each day, nearly 12 million French consumers visit a bakery and leave with an iconic loaf of bread. Each year, French bakeries produce more than 6 billion baguettes. It is an international symbol recognized as part of the daily life … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Restaurants
Tagged bakeries, bread, France, Paris, UNESCO World Heritage
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Chain Gang
When the public library in Rawicz, Poland needed to move its entire collection from it’s 70 year-old library to a new building 350 meters away it put out a call for help from the local community. On November 25, 2022, … Continue reading
The Direction of Travel
When I ran across Christian Nolle’s terrific periodical Directions of Travel I thought that some of you other travel and map geeks might need to know about the project. Nolle’s fascination with air travel and maps began when he was … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Europe, History, Maps, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Aviation, Periodicals, Travel
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Bizarre Books
Brian Lake who manages Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers in Bloomsbury, London has compiled a volume of truly odd and eccentric book covers in his new book Librorum Ridiculorum A Compendium of Bizarre Books. The books in the collection range from fairly … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Writing
Tagged Antiquarian Books, Bloomsbury, bookcovers, Bookstores, London
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell’s seminal dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four became a powerful symbol of resistance to totalitarianism. Last month an impressive reproduction of the novel’s original manuscript was released by SP Books. The only surviving Orwell manuscript of any of his works … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged 1984, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Travel Between The Pages 