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Shadow of the Silk Road

Posted by Jason Hussong on Friday, May 27, 2011,

Normally I am pretty good about remembering where and why I purchased a particular book. But, that is not the case with Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road. For all

I can truthfully recall, it just materialized on my bookshelf. And for that, I am quite glad, because it might just be the perfect story of travel, adventure and history.

Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron is about his cross-country trip from Xian, China to Antioch, Turkey, retracing the path of the old Silk Road. A...

Shadow of the Bear

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, February 22, 2011,

A while back I was shopping at a budget book fair. I wandered through the stacks, all laid out on giant pallets as though the books would immediately be shipped off to another sale if they didn't find a home at this one. When I found the travel section I was

sadly disappointed because a lot of the books were destination guidebooks. I still use them on occasion, but I was hoping to find some good reading instead. And then, tucked away on the corner of one of the pallets, I found Brian Payton...

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, January 10, 2011,

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas by Gary Geddes was the last of three books I read over the Christmas break. I went on a read

ing binge over the break in an attempt to clear off my "to do" bookshelf a bit. And this one had been sitting on the shelf for a while; I've had it for so long that I don't even remember where I picked it up, possibly having received it from the publisher.

Geddes writes about his own journey retracing the footsteps of Bu...

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...

American Shaolin

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, August 16, 2010,

Shortly after walking into the store I spotted a book called American Shaolin. What attracted my attention was a monk on t

he cover walking away with a Burger King bag held behind his back. Many of my friends will joke that the bag caught my attention, but my interest was piqued, and I knew I had to have it, for really no particular reason other than I was interested in martial arts, and had just returned from a trip to China.

I read Matthew Polly's book with great zeal, identifying myself...