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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Passions of Scholars

May 08, 2018
Tags: peru, scholarship, geoglyph, desert, place
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Measuring the Monkey

May 08, 2018
Tags: peru, geoglyph, astronomy, scholarship, preservation, animals
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At Work on the Lines

May 01, 2018
Tags: peru, scholarship, geoglyph, preservation, desert

In Praise of Mustiness

October 24, 2016
Tags: books, library, india, scholarship

About Those Clocks in Turkish Mosques

June 08, 2016
Tags: mosque, Turkey, clock, scholarship, books