[caption id="attachment_1498" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Kayaking the west coast of Vancouver Island, Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I mentioned last week about…
[caption id="attachment_1474" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Mist on the Fraser River (2009) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I fell off the map this…
[caption id="attachment_1461" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Grand Canal, Venice (2005) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] For men like Fra Mauro (see last…
[caption id="attachment_1437" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Gondolas, Venice (2004) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] The other day at Powell’s Books (Portland), I came…
We have a lot to thank the ancient Greeks for. They gave us Greek culture, mythology, the Odyssey and the…
I mentioned last week how the ancient Egyptian, Eratosthrenes, used a column and a shadow as two sides of a…
Despite the myths and rumors of a flat earth promulgated during the Middle Ages, most scientific minds over the centuries…
In southern Portugal, at a place called Sagre, I stood on red cliffs, high above an azure ocean and inhaled…
Last week I talked about the legend of paradise contained in Saint Brendan’s Island and how that legend persisted through…
In my last blog I mentioned how in the middle ages religion turned back cartographic knowledge, so that people started…