"Travel takes you to places in yourself you might not otherwise visit . . ."In this delightful and intriguing collection of essays, Trevor W. Harrison, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge and a well-known contributor to public media, tells sometimes light-hearted and sometimes poignant tales of his life between his late teens and early thirties, a time when, like many other young people of the era, he travelled the world, beginn...

In 1976, Trevor Harrison embarked on an overland trip from Turkey to India, along a well-worn route popularly called the Hippie Trail. The Iranian Revolution and other regional conflicts shortly thereafter closed this route, but during the preceding two decades, millions of young Westerners made the journey in search of adventure, curiosity, and spiritual renewal, a journey whose cultural impact—and its myths—remain with us today.This book is Harrison’s safarnameh—a Persia...

Classic plays and ghost stories, as performed by the residents of Ambridge and friends - plus bonus drama Dead Girls Tell No TalesBorsetshire's queen of amateur theatricals, Lynda Snell, never misses the chance to put on a Christmas show. Her productions are always a big hit with Ambridge audiences - and now, Archers fans can enjoy these top-notch performances alongside them (as well as eavesdropping on the shenanigans backstage).In Bl...

Freelance journalist Sig Conrad is shot in the head while elk hunting in the Oregon mountains. He survives but now his memory only lasts one day. A second man, Sig's old high school friend, is killed while swimming in Minnesota, the incident made to look like an accident. When Sig travels from Oregon to Minnesota for his class reunion, he finally starts to remember fleeting moments from his painful past. After another friend dies mysteriously, Sig's memory drifts back more vividly. Through...

"Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe", written by Elizabeth Harrison in the late 1880's, is about a young girl and her old grandmother and a special Christmas gift that surprises them both.Little Gretchen and the Wood Shoe by Elizabeth Harrisonis a classic holiday tale of hope and love.