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Andrew Chater
Abbey's Country
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Emelia Ho
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Horror and History
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Horror and History
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Only Connect
Andrew Chater
Only Connect
Andrew Chater

Andrew reflects on the origins of the Bookpacker project

Andrew Chater
New Orleans 2018
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New Orleans 2018
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The 2018 BOOKPACKERS USC ‘Maymester’ to New Orleans was a vibrant and soul-stirring experience

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Searching for Buddy Bolden
Andrew Chater
Searching for Buddy Bolden
Andrew Chater

Reading Michael Ondaatje’s ‘Coming Through Slaughter’ in Central City, New Orleans

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A Few Counties for Old Men
Joey Scavone
A Few Counties for Old Men
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Reading Cormac McCarthy on a road trip through West Texas

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The Grapes of Wrath - on air...
Bookpackers
The Grapes of Wrath - on air...
Bookpackers

Bookpacker Andrew Chater, interviewed for an NPR documentary on The Grapes of Wrath

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Savannah Souvenir
Colin Burrows
Savannah Souvenir
Colin Burrows

Guest blogger Colin Burrows tests his memory in Georgia's most bookpacker-friendly city

Colin Burrows
““Jess was always sociable when he traveled. He used to say that sun, moon and stars were the same everywhere and only the people different and if you didn’t get to know them you’d as well have stayed home and milked the cows.””
— Jessamyn Ward, ‘The Friendly Persuasion’

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‘The canyonlands. The slickrock desert. The red dust and burnt cliffs and the only sky - all that which lies beyond the end of the roads.’ - Edward Abbey, 'Desert Solitaire' pic by Hui Yeon Eim #Canyonlands #DesertSolitaire @eimartography
‘Life has come to a standstill, at least for the hour. In this forgotten place the tree and I wait on the shore of time.’ - Edward Abbey, 'Desert Solitaire' #BrightAngelTrailhead #SouthRim #EdwardAbbey #DesertSolitaire
“She says, this is Holly, I say honey, you sound far away, she says I'm in New York, I say what the hell are you doing in New York when it's Sunday and you got the screen test tomorrow? She says I'm in New York cause I've never been to New York.” - Truman Capote, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ #newyork #bookpackers.com #BreakfastAtTiffanys #BookpackingTheBigApple
“Greetings, Broadway - you old harlot.” - Don Ryan, ‘Angel’s Flight’, 1927 #NewYorkCity #Broadway #bookpackers
“So what I decided to do, I decided I'd take a room in a hotel in New York - some very inexpensive hotel and all - and just take it easy till Wednesday.” - J.D. Salinger, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ #catcherintherye #jdsallinger #bookpackers.com #newyorkcity #BookpackingTheBigApple @thebookpacker
"Here we are by the fresh pure lake walkin' along in this good air, by God it's a haiku in itself." - Jack Kerouac, ‘The Dharma Bums’ #yosemite #tiogapass @peaksandprofessors #kerouac #thedharmabums #bookpacking
‘I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.’ - Henry David Thoreau, ‘Walden’ #walden #henrydavidthoreau #bookpackers.com
'I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars' - Walt Whitman #bookpackers #leavesofgrass #waltwhitman
“Nobody respects a hot dog vendor.” / “That is patently untrue, sir. No one respects hot dog vendors more than I. They perform one of our society’s few worthwhile services.” - Ignatius J. Reilly in ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’  #johnkennedytoole #ignatiusjreilly #aconfederacyofdunces #neworleans #neworleansfiction #frenchquarter #bookpackers
"That was the freest time of my life. I had no commitments to anyone or anybody.” - Truman Capote, describing his early 20s, writing 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' in a $70-a-month dive in Royal Street #literaryneworleans #frenchquarter #trumancapote #bookpackers #thebigeasy
‘Every texture, every color, leapt out at you… Every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing.’ - Anne Rice, 'The Witching Hour' #neworleans #marigny #annerice #bookpackers
“I simply felt like going out, and I went out.” - Kate Chopin, 'The Awakening' #neworleans #gardendistrictnola #literaryneworleans #thebigeasy #bookpackers