Saturday, February 8, 2014 (Books, reading), 1 comments
I read The Raven's Gift a while ago and meant to review it here. Better late than never...
Jon Turk have written a lot of books on environmental- and earth-science books, and some on adventure travels: paddling, skiing, climbing etc, often in quite adventurous settings. In The Raven's Gift it starts with a paddling over Bering Strait (the scene for the "The Deadliest Catch" ;-), but apart from that there is little paddling in the book (a warning to the commenter who some time ago was very upset that I had the audacity to deviate from the expected paddling-and-nothing-but posts). Mostly it is about his life-changing experiences with the ancient shaman culture of the Koryaks in Kamchatka. As expected there are new-age-vibes through the pages, but Turk never gets stuck with the "travels" as Carlos Castaneda once did and his account stays believable and honest in ways that I did not find in Olga Kharitidi's book on Siberian shamans: "Entering the circle" (and in my opinion, better written).
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 (bygge), 4 comments
Brian Schultz (Cape Falcon Kayak) kajakbyggare, kajakinstruktör, och entusiastisk förespråkare för småskaligt och hållbart boende, har byggt ett charmigt hus på en skogstomt i Nehalem, norra Oregon. Huset är inspirerat av japansk arkitektur och byggt av av rivningsvirke, stormfällt virke, drivved hittad under kajakutflykter och kostade ungefär $ 11000.
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Gå husesyn tillsammans med Brian i den här videon...
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