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In which our hero, Dantes, having escaped Chateau d'If and having found help from a band of smugglers finally makes it to the Isle of Monte Cristo to find out if the treasure is a reality or simply the dream of his former cell mate, Abbe Farias!

There are some great quotes in here! Also, I love the intercalary paragraphs about the Vietnam War and the Reagan Administration. Some of the language (rhetoric) of that era sounds like an echo of the current administration!

Beautifully written partial autobiography. Thor recounts what led up to his decision to explore the cultural and anthropological ties between Polynesia and South America. He recounts his youth and his awareness that he did not share a Euro-centric view of life on the planet with his fellow Norwegians. He desired to live as completely with Nature as possible. This book covers his trip with his wife, Liv to Polynesia.

Still amazing to me, the rapture and pull of reverie, Heat-Moon invokes the ancient voices of America, while it was yet a babel of mariners, ministers, miners, muleteers, matrons, maids and mavens. He weaves together its prophet poets and its great waves of immigrants, slaves and natives. Shaped in the cauldron of emerging nationhood we are all here, always arriving together.

I feel I am in the passenger seat with William Least-Heat Moon, mile after magical mile!!

This man and I share the same birthday. I picked up his novel (I think the only novel he wrote) in the free library in Rebel Donuts on Wyoming. It is a GREAT read, with prose that makes you feel instantly connected to the writer. What I love about the book is his ability to transmit the sense of being an insider within the Innuit culture and he also conveys his deep connection and ongoing relationship with nature.

I have just started this, and already I am hooked!! Move over, Jack London. There's a new Eskimo on the block!!

A gentle, undemanding ride through Europe, her past disappointments, and a potential romance. Nothing to get excited about.....so far.

Magnificently and compassionately written. The "silent" partner in this extraordinary chronicle of a marriage is poignant and honest. Brilliant

Just started this marvelous book, and I am in love with it!