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In Patagonia

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, September 12, 2011,

I had childhood fantasies about adventures in far off places. We traveled enough in the United States, and my parents internationally, that is was unavoidable - I would be a traveler, t

oo. And as a young boy, I dreamed of my adventures in places whose names I did not yet know. It was much the same for Bruce Chatwin In Patagonia.

I paced through the bookstore numerous times on numerous occasions, pulling In Patagonia off the shelf only to put it back. I wanted the book, but was uneasy...

The Heart of the World

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, January 6, 2011,

I was capitvated with this book the moment I saw the cover on a book stand at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. I was nearing the completion of another book, so I picked it up and

threw it in my pack to read as soon as I returned to Denver. And then Ian Baker's The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise sat on my home bookshelf for a couple of years for a reason I can't really explain. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago, at the start of my Christmas break, an...

Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, December 9, 2010,

I had to do a lot of preparatory research before writing my book, The Drive North: A Swing Down Memory Lane. A lot of it was rather tedious and boring historical reading, something I thought I was over when I graduated from college, but there was an occasional gem that I

really enjoyed. One of the books that helped me along the way was Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir by Etta Koch with June Cooper Price.

Etta Koch moved her family to the newly created Big Bend...

Cold Beer and Crocodiles

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, September 6, 2010,

I knew that after reading Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, anything that followed most likely would be a let down. Nonetheless, I picked up Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia by Roff Smith. I was keen to to continue reading about traveling, particularly in advance of my trip to Australia, and this seemed like a good book to keep the wheel turning.

In the book, author Roff Smith details his bike ride around Australia from Sydney, north along the coast to Cairns,...

360 Degrees Longitude

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, April 29, 2010,

I like to take books on vacations that I think with both last me the whole trip and also be possible to finish in the time that I'm gone. It's a delicate balance to strike as it's difficult to tell exactly how long it'll take you to read a book before you even

pick it up as it could be rubish or it could be so good that you don't want to put it down, breezing through it in only a couple of days. Well, when I packed 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World for a recent road...

Ranulph Fiennes: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,

Ranulph Fiennes: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know was a book gifted to me by my friend Stephen Mills on his last visit to Colorado back in March. After much indecision about what to read after Three Cups of Tea, I finally decided to pick it up and give it a go.

I'm quite surprised really that I had never heard of Fiennes until Stephen gave me the book, especially with all of the other books he's written that have sold so well. But, I guess that it's just my lack of desire to look at bestseller lis...
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