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Rosemarie Circumnavigator 2016 to 2020
Revisiting England - Devon and London(Middlesex)The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle(27/11/16)
Revisiting Scotland - The Highlands and the Lowlands
Waverley by Walter Scott (28/11/16)
Region: AfricaCountry 39: Ghana
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (30/11/16)
Revisiting Germany - Rhine River region
Rheinreise - Gedichte und Lieder by Wolf-Dietrich Gumz (30/11/16)
Region: Oceania/AntarcticaVingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers by Jules Verne (5/12/16)
9 Regions, 39 Countries
Revisiting Canada-OntarioGlengarry School Days: A Story of Early Days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor (8/12/16)
Canada- New Brunswick
The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason (8/12/16)
Revisiting England- Thames Region, MerionethshireCrotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock (9/12/16)
Revisiting Austria
Der Hochwald und andere Erzählungen by Adalbert Stifter (10/12/16)
9 Regions, 39 Countries
Revisiting EnglandJust William by Richmal Crompton (13/12/2016)
Richard II by William Shakespeare(13/12/16)
Region: AfricaCountry 40: Libya
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (16/12/16)
9 Regions, 40 Countries
Region 10: OtherEarth and Alpha Centauri
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell(17/12/16)
Revisiting Switzerland
Travesties by Tom Stoppard(17/12/16)
Revisiting Canada-AlbertaThe Garneau Block by Todd Babiak (20/12/16)
Revisiting USA- Utah
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans (20/12/16)
Region: CaribbeanCountry 41: Cuba
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (22/12/16)
I have now visited all of my 10 regions, and 41 countries.
Revisiting HungaryThe White Stag by Kate Seredy (23/12/16)
Revisiting USA- Washington State
The Nine Lives of Christmas by Sheila Roberts (23/12/16)
Revisiting EnglandThe Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans (27/12/16)
Revisiting Canada-Quebec
Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon (27/12/16)
Revisiting China-Xinjiang ProvinceFrom Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth (28/12/16)
Revisiting U.S. -Massachusetts
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (29/12/16)
Revisiting EnglandFramley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope (31/12/16)
N or M? by Agatha Christie(31/12/16)
Circumnavigator: Year 1Regions visited in 2016: All
Countries visited in 2016: 41
Europe- England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Ukraine, Scotland, Hungary
Asia- China, Japan, India, Singapore
Africa- Libya, Kenya, Liberia, Egypt, Congo Free State, Ghana
Middle East- Israel, Saudi Arabia
North America-Canada ( all 10 provinces and 3 territories), United States of America
Latin America- Mexico, Chile, Argentina
Caribbean- Cuba
Australia (also Tasmania)
Oceania- Krakatoa
Antarctica
Time to start Year 2-2017.I visited all the regions in 2016, but there are many more countries to visit this year.
Revisiting China-ChunkingYoung Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
This book won the Newbery Medal in 1933.
Revisiting England - Southwest (Wessex)Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Revisiting the U.S. - New Hampshire
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Rosemarie wrote: "Revisiting Asia- and Heaven11. Monkey: A Journey to the West by David Kherdian"
Hahahahaha Rosemarie! Made me laugh so much reading that Heaven!
but it's true!
It was a fun read, and it is almost the end of the Year of the Monkey, I think.
Rosemarie wrote: "It was a fun read, and it is almost the end of the Year of the Monkey, I think."Yes! It's almost the end of the Year of the Monkey. In two weeks, the Lunar New Year will begin and we will usher in the Year of the Fire Rooster! :)
(gotta find a book about a rooster and hopefully not a cookbook!)
My little granddaughter was born in April last year, and she acts like a little monkey at times.
Revisiting West AfricaThe Cow-Tail Switch: And Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
Newbery Honor book from 1948
Missy J wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "It was a fun read, and it is almost the end of the Year of the Monkey, I think."Yes! It's almost the end of the Year of the Monkey. In two weeks, the Lunar New Year will begin a..."
I recently read Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice, it's a crazy comic in which, among the others, there's a rooster who acts like a Mexican fighter/a punisher xDDD
That sounds like a crazy concept- but definitely original!
Revisting the United StatesI've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Walter Dean Myers
Adventures in Understanding by David Grayson
Revisiting Canada- Quebec and OntarioThe Ice Storm: An Historic Record in Photographs of January 1998 by Mark Abley
We were only slightly affected by this storm, being without power for only a few hours.
Does anyone remember this ice storm?
Revisting the U.S. - California
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Region 1: Europe
Country: Norway
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Country: France
Memoires Interieurs by François Mauriac
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Das Lavendelzimmer by Nina George
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
Country: Montenegro
Memoir of the Bobotes by Joyce Cary
Country: Ukraine
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
Country: The Netherlands
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Country: Italy
La luna color ametista by Carlo Sgorlon
Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann
The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtele
Naples Declared by Benjamin Taylor
Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Country: Spain
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
La lluvia amarilla by Julio Llamazares
Siete días de julio by Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Cinco días de octubre by Jordi Sierra i Fabra
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Country: Poland
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Country: Portugal
Nachtzug nach Lissabon by Pascal Mercier
Country: Sweden
Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos
Country: Hungary
The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Looting of Hungary by Ronald W. Zweig
Country: Ireland
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty
Country: Russia
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Twelve Plays by Anton Chekhov
Country: Czech Republic
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz
Country: Denmark
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
Country: Serbia
The Houses of Belgrade by Borislav Pekić
Country: England
Small Moments by Richard Church
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Wednesday Daughters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Christmas At Thrush Green by Miss Read
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
1984 by George Orwell
Country: Scotland
John Burnet of Barnes by Buchan
Bruach Blend by Lillian Beckwith by Walter Scott
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
Country: Belgium
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Country: Austria
O du mein Österreich by Hans Weigel
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Country: Germany
Sei froh, dass Du lebst!: Roman by Asta Scheib
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Gute Nacht, Jakob - heiterer Roman by Hans Georg Bentz
Wenn Wir Alle Engel Wären Roman by Heinrich Spoerl
Die Nachtwachen Des Bonaventura.The Night Watches Of Bonaventura. by Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
Leberecht Hühnchen by Heinrich Seidel
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country: Switzerland
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Region 2: Asia
Country: China
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices byXinran
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Country: India
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Angry River by Ruskin Bond
Country: Japan
The Last Leaves Falling by Fox Benwell
Country: Singapore
Beneath the Singapore Sky by P.C. Nicholas
Region 3: Africa
Country: Liberia
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
Country: Kenya
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Country: Egypt
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Country: Congo Free State
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Region 4: North America
Country: Canada
Ontario
Angel Square by Brian Doyle
Wind Without Rain by Selwyn Dewdney
The Last Hand by Eric Wright
Little Comrades by Laurie Lewis
The Bells on Finland Street by Lyn Cook
British Columbia
Janey's Girl by Gayle Friesen
The Age of Water Lilies by Theresa Kishkan
Yukon Territory
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Quebec
The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider's View by William Tetley
The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
Saskatchewan
Peace Shall Destroy Many by Rudy Wiebe
Manitoba
A Candle to Light the Sun by Patricia Blondal
Fruits of the Earth by Frederick Philip Grove
Prince Edward Island
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Northwest Territory
White Fang by Jack London
Nunavut
Fury Beach by Ray Edinger
Nova Scotia
The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler
Raising Orion by Lesley Choyce
Newfoundland
The Secret Islands: An Exploration by Franklin Russell
Country: USA
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Haunted Bookshop by Chrisopher Morley
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Colonial American Travel Narratives by Wendy Martin
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Month of Sundays by Ruth White
United as One by Pittacus Lore
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle
Region 6: Latin America
Country: Mexico
El tren pasa primero by Elena Poniatowska
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos
Country: Chile
La casa de los espíritus by Isabel Allende
Country: Argentina
Far Away and Long Ago by William Henry Hudson
Region 7: Middle East
Country: Israel
Nicht so laut vor Jericho by Ephraim Kishon
Country: Saudi Arabia
Il Grande Mare di Sabbia: Storie del deserto by Stefano Malatesta
Region 8: Australia
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Tasmania
Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman
Region 9: Oceania and Antarctica
Oceania
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Region 10: Other
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Regions to Visit:
1. Europe
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. North America
5. Caribbean
6. Latin America
7. Middle East
8. Australia
9. Oceania and Antarctica
10. Other