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Just finished rereading Wait Till Next Year/Doris Kearns Goodwin. As much about growing up in the 50's as it is about being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 50s, which I can testify was hard work! Currently: Company of Adventurers/Peter C. Newman. A history of the Hudson's Bay Company and how it...

Just finished Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit. A fascinating read. From the dust jacket: "...Solnit draws together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - to create a portrait of the range of...

Just finished rereading A Town Like Alice/Nevil Shute (nee Nevil Shute Norway), who also wrote On The Beach, which was the basis for the classic movie of the same name. Currently: Born Naked/ Farley Mowat. Subtitled The early adventures of the author of Never Cry Wolf. Next : The Philosophy of...

Quirk is right. Thanks for the explanation, Alan.

Guest (post #19), We may be neighbors. If you like, contact me by Private Message. Dave

Currently reading: Wood: Craft, Culture, History by Harvey Green. From the back cover: " We build our houses and heat them with it, we sail on it and sit on it, we make our weapons and hit balls with it." Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke. The latest from just about my favorite fiction author...

I have been reading your posts on Wooden Boat Forums for some time, Denise. Welcome and looking forward to your contributions to this forum. I agree with you, Mark. I live in western Oregon and have been looking for a for a wood/canvas or stripper square-stern or freighter to buy or restore...

I'm on a bit of a music jag... Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build The Perfect Instrument/Allen St.John. Author seems on a bit of an adulation riff over Henderson, but the glimpse into the guitar making process and finding out the difference between a 1939 Martin 000-42 and a 1974...

Started, and then put down Lower River by Paul Theroux. I really like most everything written by Theroux, particularly his non-fiction travel writing. But this one had the main character, 62 years old, recently divorced and selling his business, thinking about returning to Africa where he was...

This book could also be posted on the "History book recommendations" thread, I suppose, but.... The Book on the Bookshelf/ Henry Petroski "...as simple as the bookshelf might appear to be as an object of construction and utility, the story of its development, which is intertwined with that of...

Heureka! [I found it!] -Archimedes Good for you, Alan. Wishing you well.

Hays, Welcome to Oregon. Go to http://willamettewatertrail.org, the website for the Willamette River Water Trail. On the site you can get an awful lot of information on put-ins, takeouts, camp sites as well as other things of interest along the river. You can also buy The Willamette River...

I have to add one other recommendation, Mike, The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Learned a lot that I didn't know about the Wrights and what they went through to begin the era of mechanized flight. But I also learned that a canoe was involved. In September, 1909, Wilbur Wright was...

Here are four eclectic history reads for you to consider: - The Eternal Frontier: The Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples/Tim Flannery - His Invention So Fertile: a life of Christopher Wren/ Adrian Tinniswood - A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead and America in...

Mike, on your recommendation I've ordered the Measure of Manhattan. Thank you. Also, in On The Map, there is a part of a chapter on the "gridding of Manhattan" and mentions Randal's work.

I am scratching two chronic itches at once: maps and books/bookstores. On The Map: a Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield. "More people use more maps than at any other time in human history, but we have not lost sight of their beauty, romance or inherent...

Warning noted; however, 'fresh fuel' and hope is more than ever, welcome.

I have to chuckle, Magnus because the Essex book has will bring back Moby Dick to MY 'to-read' pile after about 50 years....and thank you for helping me discover "brain pickings".

Finishing up In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. Based on accounts of survivors, the story of the Essex supposedly inspired Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (Warning: the tale involves extreme human privation and cannabelism.) Up next, The Long...

Can anyone on this list identify the make and model of the canoe by looking at it?