Paul Bowles’ Travel Essays – The Loss of Cultures

I am transported by Paul Bowles’ writing. His evocations of desert life, North African culture, and impending imperialization are excellent examples of the west’s need to “improve” other cultures by enforcing their own sense of propriety and rules. From 1931 to 1963, Paul Bowles details the changes wrought by aggressive cultures on Marrekech, Tangier, and […]

Paris to the Past – Ina Caro

What a wonderful writer and what a great approach to traveling a country I love. Ina Caro has written not just a directory of the best sites in France, but an architectural, historical, and social milieu portrait of seven hundred years of wars, family conflict, and socio-economic changes. Her style is gossipy but well-informd and […]