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









