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Book Catalog - Travel/Pilgrimage
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Following the Milky Way (2nd edition) is the story of Elyn Aviva's
500-mile-long journey on foot on the Camino de Santiago. Whether you
are a spiritual seeker, an avid outdoor adventurer, or an armchair
traveler, you will find this a compelling account of a journey that
is as old as human longing and as modern as tomorrow. First Published
in 1989 by ISU Press, the 2nd edition includes an updated intro.
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Walking Home
is the fictionalized account of Lasswell’s on-again, off-again pilgrimage
on the Camino de Santiago. Sometimes surreal, sometimes poignant, often thought provoking,
Walking Home invites the reader to share Lasswell’s internal and external explorations
as they unfold along the Way.
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The Way of Saint James, Vol. I by Georgiana Goddard King.
Introduction; from France to Burgos. Introduction by Kathy Gower, Ph.D.,
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Medieval Christian Pilgrimage.
Purchase from
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca,
Amazon.de,
Amazon.fr,
Amazon.it,
Amazon.co.jp.
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Book Catalog - Powerful Places
This unique guidebook series provides detailed descriptions of powerful places, often
not on the typical tourist route. The books provide background information, detailed
descriptions, how to get there, and what to do when you arrive so that you can really
experience the place. The guides include numerous maps, graphics, and photos that
bring the locations to life. They are available as print books and in ePub formats.
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Powerful Places in Wales
- To appreciate Wales, a “sense of place” is a necessity—and this includes knowing
the stories of the land. This guidebook links particular places to tales of King
Arthur, Merlin, shape-shifting Cerridwen with her cauldron, and to other stories
in the Welsh medieval epic, the Mabinogi.
Learn the hidden meanings of Wales’ megalithic sites and holy wells. Visit its
sacred mountains, ruined abbeys, and medieval chapels perched on isolated
hilltops. Detailed descriptions of these powerful places, including how to get
there and what to do when you arrive, are provided.
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Powerful Places in Ireland
- Ireland is a magical place, bright and shining,
misty and mysterious, filled with powerful sites. You could say, most of Ireland is a powerful
place. Explore impressive megalithic sites, including grass-covered cairns and massive stone
circles, holy wells and sacred mountains, ruined abbeys and medieval chapels. Scannable QR
codes enable you to link directly to internet resources. Sat-Nav headers provide specific directional guidance.
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Powerful Places in Scotland
helps you experience numerous ancient sites in the wilds of Scotland, including
impressive cairns, a mysterious holy island, ancient stone circles, and a fairy glen—to name a few.
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Powerful Places in Brittany invites you to explore a carefully chosen selection of sites
in this land of myth and mystery. In Brittany you’ll find the world’s largest collection
of megaliths, including cairns with fascinating interior carvings, an enchanted forest
(or two) filled with legends of Arthur and Merlin, evocative pilgrimage shrines, and holy wells.
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Powerful Places on the Caminos de Santiago explores sites on less-traveled roads that lead
to the pilgrimage shrine of Santiago de Compostela. These include the mountaintop shrine of
a Black Virgin, a Knights Templar chapel concealed in a canyon, a hidden valley in the Pyrenees—to name a few.
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Powerful Places in Catalonia
presents a carefully chosen selection of places in this province of Spain: medieval villages,
cosmopolitan cities, and gorgeous nature preserves. These fascinating sites include
5,000-year-old dolmens, a magical beechwood forest, a hidden valley in the Pyrenees,
Black Madonnas—and much more.
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Book Catalog - Novels
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Dead End on the Camino
is a contemporary mystery inextricably
tied to the past. Filled with accurate historical detail, cultural tidbits,
and vivid descriptions of culinary delights, cathedrals, and the cities
and villages along the Camino de Santiago, Dead End on the Camino
takes the reader on a life-and-death treasure hunt across Spain.
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The Journey: A Novel of Pilgrimage and Spiritual Quest
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The Journey begins on the Camino de Santiago and ranges across Spain, France, and Turkey.
It is the tale of Gwen, a young American pilgrim, who is confronted by a vision that won’t
leave her alone. Driven by the deep longing of her soul, Gwen embarks on an archetypal
journey that includes modern-day Druids, a quest for the Grail, the labyrinth at Chartres
Cathedral, the Forest of Brocéliande, Black Madonna shrines, and Sufis in Istanbul.
Along the way she finds wise teachers and charlatans, true love and its imitations. Her
search for meaning leads her, eventually, to discover who she really is.
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Waking the Tiger by Leonard Feinberg
is a novel set in late-1950s Sri Lanka, a country at the edge of a gathering
storm of violence. Feinberg weaves a complex story of the clash between cultures and castes,
expats and ex-colonials, Hindu swamis and Buddhist priests, politicians and entrepeneurs,
Sinhalese and Tamils, idealism and realism. Filled with vivid accounts of local customs
and locales, Waking the Tiger sardonically describes the underbelly of
an apparent paradise.
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Where the Williwaw Blows
is based on Dr. Leonard Feinberg's
two-year stint (1944-45) as a naval officer on the island of Adak in
the Aleutians. In this darkly humorous novel, Feinberg turns a sardonic
eye on the foibles of military life while he memorializes the quiet
heroism of some of the men who were stationed on one of the bleakest
military outposts of World War II. LARGE PRINT EDITION
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Book Catalog - Satire
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Hypocrisy: Don't Leave Home Without It
is an expose of hypocrisy in all its various manifestations--educational,
legal, religious, and athletic, to name just a few. According to the
author, "We live in a world where it pays off for institutions and individuals
to create images better than their actual condition justifies." Read
Hypocrisy and learn what human and animal society is really like. LARGE PRINT EDITION
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The ET Visitor's Guide to the U.S.A.
is an urbane, sardonic view of American culture told from the perspective
of an extraterrestrial. Like Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court, The ET Visitor's Guide to the U.S.A.
casts a wry eye on the customs and habits of America. LARGE PRINT EDITION
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Introduction to Satire
by Leonard Feinberg with a new introduction by Don L. F Nilson. Introduction to Satire
explains fully how the satirist manages to express his criticism in forms that society is willing
to accept—in spite of the fact that no one likes to be criticized.
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Book Catalog - Autobiography
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Dying to Live
is about facing challenges. Being miserable. Finding faith. Learning
to let go and learning to trust. It is the inspiring story of Gaea Shaw’s
journey from heart transplant recipient to gold medal winner at the Olympic-style Transplant Games.
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Pebbles: Memories of a Small-Town Kansas Boy by Gary White. The stories we tell
about our lives define how others see us and how we see ourselves. Gary White (b. 1937), an
award-winning composer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Iowa State University, and
music-textbook author, has gathered up some of the stories of his life and offers them to you.
As he explains, “…like pebbles in a stream, most of these little pieces have been
rounded and polished by frequent retelling.”
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Book Catalog - Nonfiction/Science
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