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Crossing the Heart of Africa

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, August 4, 2011,
I slid Julian Smith's book onto the shelf, just to the right of Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World. I had finished it, Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure, and stood before my bookshelf contemplating the story. It wasn't what I had expected and thus I wasn't quite sure what I thought of the story.

Crossing the Heart of Africa is Julian Smith's tale about how he crossed Africa from south to north, following in the footsteps of Englishman Ewart Grog...

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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...

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The Worst Journey in the World

Posted by Jason Hussong on Saturday, September 5, 2009,
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." So Apsely Cherry-Garrard begins the telling of The Worst Journey in the World.

Antarctic happenings, but particularly the history of exploration there, have intensely interested me since my travels took me there in January of 2004. I read any newspaper or magazine article I can find on the place and I try to pick up as many books as possible on the continent, most of which are abo...

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