Great Reading

The following are favorite authors, works, or personages about whom much has been written –  great “travelers,” or purveyors of Mindscapes, Soulscapes, and Landscapes:  adventure/explorers, teachers, politicians/diplomats, spiritualists, environmentalists, muses, scientists, philosophers, and others dedicated to pushing the envelope of the human experience by interacting with other cultures and belief systems.

THE "TRAVELERS"

Isabel Allende		My Invented Country
Stephen Ambrose		Undaunted Courage
Dante Alighieri		The Divine Comedy
		The Arabian (Thousand and One) Nights
Jose Arguelles		The Mayan Factor
The Bhagavad-Gita		(Mahabharata, Vedas, Upanishads)
The Bible		works
William Blake		works
Boccaccio		The Decameron
Bill Bryson		A Short History of Nearly Everything; Notes from a Small Island; Mother Tongue; Down Under
Richard Burton		(about )
Tim Cahill		Road Fever; and Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel Less Bliss
Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers		The Power of Myth
Lewis Carroll		Through the Looking Glass; and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carlos Castaneda		A Separate Reality; and The Power of Silence
Fritjof Capra		The Tao of Physics; and The Turning Point
Jimmy Carter		Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Thomas Costain		The Silver Chalice; and The Darkness and the Dawn
Goeffrey Chaucer		The Canterbury Tales
Miguel Cervantes		Don Quixote
The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)		Everything
Charles Dickens		A Tale of Two Cities
Daniel Defoe		Robinson Crusoe
Wayne Dyer		The Power of Intention; Your Erroneous Zones; Inspiration; Being in Balance; Everyday Wisdom; Staying on the Path
Joseph Dispenza		The Way of the Traveler
John Donne		works
Meister Eckhart		Whom God Hid Nothing
Albert Einstein		(about)
Euripides		The Bacchanals and other plays
E.M. Forster		A Passage to India
Dean Foster		Global Etiquette Guide  (series)
Thomas Friedman		The World is Flat; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; Longitudes and Attitudes
Mahatma Gandhi		(about)
Edmund Gibbons		The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Gilgamesh		(Epic)
Johann Goethe		Faust
Ernesto Guevera		The Motorcycle Diaries
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff		(about)
Larry Habegger & Tim O’Reilley		Traveler’s Tales (publishing series)
Herman Hesse		Magister Ludi; and Siddhartha
Robert Heinlein		Stranger in a Strange Land
Herodutus		The Histories
Homer		The Iliad; and The Odyssey
Roger Housden		Sacred Journeys in a Modern World
Barbara Marx Hubbard		Conscious Evolution
Thich Nhat Hanh		works
Vaclav Havel		The Power of the Powerless; and The Art of the Impossible
Paul Hawken		Natural Capitalism
David Hawkins		Power Vs. Force
Hildegarde of Bingen		(about)
Aldous Huxley		Brave New World
Pico Iyer		everything
James Joyce		Ulysses
Robert Kaplan		everything
Martin Luther King		The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Barbara Kingsolver		The Poisonwood Bible; and Pigs in Heaven
Rudyard Kipling		everything
The Koran / Quoran		works
Jack Kornfield		A Path With a Heart
Elizabeth Kruempelmann		The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career
The Kybalion		works
Gregg Levoy		Callings
Richard Lewis		When Cultures Collide; and The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century
Jack London		Burning Daylight; Before Adam; Adventure; The Call of the Wild
Rosemary Mahoney		The Singular Pilgrim
Somerset Maugham		The Razor’s Edge
Peter Matthiessen		The Snow Leopard
Thomas Merton		No Man is an Island; and Contemplation in a World of Action
James Michener		Everything
John Milton		Paradise Lost
William Least Heat Moon		Blue Highways; and Riverhorse
The National Geographic		(multimedia productions)
Scott Peck		The Road Less Traveled; People of the Lie; The Different Drum
Robert Pirsig		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pliny (the Elder)		The Natural History
Marco Polo		The Travels of Marco Polo
Slavomir Rawicz		The Long Walk
The Royal Geographic Society		multimedia productions
Jalaluddin Rumi		(about)
Tom Robbins		Everything
Salman Rushdie		Everything
Antoine Marie Roger de Saint Exupéry		Wind, Sand, and Stars
Albert Schweitzer		(about)
Sophocles
Jonathan Swift		Gulliver’s Travels
William Shakespeare		Everything
Shunryu Suzuki		The Three Pillars of Zen
Paul Thereaux		Everything
Henry David Thoreau		Walden
J.R.R. Tolkien		The Lord of the Rings
The Torah		works
Arnold Toynbee		A Study in History
Mark Twain		The Innocents Abroad; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Desmond Tutu		biography
Lao Tzu		The Tao Te Ching
Pierre Tielhard de Chardin		The Phenomenon of Man
Francois Voltaire		Candide
Alice Walker		The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure
Ken Wilbur		Everything
Walt Whitman		Leaves of Grass
Paramahansa Yogananda		Autobiography of a Yogi