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“There is always that one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“it is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveller, and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines.”
― The Sea and the Jungle
― The Sea and the Jungle
“I would drain my tropics to the last precious drop. I myself was seeing what I had thought others lucky to have seen. It was like being born into the world as an understanding adult.”
― The Sea and the Jungle
― The Sea and the Jungle
“We must consider the disproportionate number of resources devoted to finding innovative postdisaster solutions, against those used to prevent them. Minimizing people’s vulnerabilities through measures that favor social justice requires less money than rebuilding after disasters.”
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
― Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
Great African Reads
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Here is an overview of the group reads & activities: Regional reads Nominations and Book discussions. Buddy Reads Find someone to read along with!. Sh ...more
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Travel Literature Makes My Heart Beat Faster..
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— last activity Aug 29, 2025 08:23PM
Do you adore a good piece of travel literature/travelogue? Than this is the group for you!
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Victorians!
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Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
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