Title: Explorer’s House: National Geographic and the World it Made
Author: Robert M. Poole
Genre: History, Non-fiction
Pub. Date: January 2006 (paperback edition)
Format: Paperback, 368pp
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Personal Rating: 4/5
Inventors, geography, and nepotism all find their way into the pages of Robert M. Poole�s history of National Geographic entitled Explorer�s House: National Geographic and the World It Made.
Beginning [...]
Posts under ‘Travel’
Book Review: Explorer’s House by Robert M. Poole
CovFriends Reunion 2007
Pictures from our get together of the past weekend.
Masterworks Tours 2008
For those of you who don’t know, one of the things I do for a hobby (along with my father) is take home schoolers on trips to Europe every year to experience the culture and history.
We are currently accepting applicants to the trips for 2008. Next year we are planning on heading to Rome, [...]
Philadelphia and Ocean City 2007
We have returned! Here are some the pictures from our great vacation! Thanks Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. Thanks also to Vox Vendsel for letting us visit and meet cute little Philo.
Book Review: The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Genre: Travel, History, Humor
�Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts,� so concludes (or nearly so) the most irreverent travel book ever written, by that unique American humorist, Mark Twain. Hired to take ship on one of the very first cruises ever envisioned (a [...]
Roma
I promised you, dear reader, that I would show you little slice of the Rome I just visited. Here you go.
PS: Flickr Rocks!
Masterworks Tours 2008
I would like to point out a neat Georgia non-profit that no one has ever heard of. Started about five years ago, Masterworks Tours provides tours of Europe for home-schooler’s that are cheap, easy and fun. For several years I have volunteered my own time to help design literature, maintain the website, and host various [...]
Masterworks Tours
I added a new blog link today. Masterworks Tours is a hobby of my father’s which is slowly becoming a business. We provide European tours for high-school homeschooling families at a reasonable (some would say cheap) price. So far we have visited Vienna, London, Rome, and Germany. This year we are going to Madrid and [...]
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