Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Travelogues for Class Saturday, 3.28.2003 Folks --- During class on Saturday we want to create our own definition of a traveler (as distinct from a “tourist”). Read the travelogues below and note how these writers travel: what do they do that seems like what a traveler really should do? What do they do seems out of the spirit of travel? What attitudes do they hold that we should emulate? What attitudes should we reject? We’ll build our own “Guidelines for the Authentic Traveler,” and we’ll hammer this out Saturday in class. Come prepared with ideas and thoughts. (the bike trip piece is long, and you need not read it all, just enough to get a feel for the man’s style). -- PJClements   First Chapter of Leonard Clark’s 1946 Trip up the Amazon     http://www.travelerstales.com/catalog/riverseast/chapter.html John and Sheila’s 1998 Trip to Timbuktu     http://squierj.freeyellow.com/Timbuktu.htm Randy Johnson’s trip through the Chiapas, Yucatan     http://www.ease.com/~randyj/rjsncris.htm Mark Gardner’s Bike Trip Across the USA     http://www.mindspring.com/~markdgardner/tour/tour1.html   11:38:14 AM    comment []

Alchemist Final Reading Respond below to either item: The simum blew that day as it had never blown before. For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. (154) How does this passage summarize a key drama in the story? “Leave him. He doesn’t have anything else. He must have stolen his gold.” (164) Who are the speakers here, and what are the circumstances of their encounter with the boy? 8:05:01 AM    comment []

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