Maybe you can’t afford to vacation in the Amazon River Basin, the heart of Africa, the mountains of Nepal, or the Polynesian islands, and maybe you are as sad as Alexander the Great, who wept when he thought there were no new worlds to conquer. But you can still be an explorer—and explore a lot more than new geographic territory.
How? Through books.
Books can help you explore not only the world’s geography (or something closer to home) but also history, interesting people, adventures, and more. Just pick your favorite subject, and then pick up a book.
Are you more into people than places? Read biographies of, or other books by, politicians, entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, or ordinary people with interesting lives and stories. From Helen Keller to General MacArthur, from Anne Frank to Steve Jobs, there are people waiting to “meet you” between the covers of books by and/or about individuals from many walks of life.
And if that isn’t your thing, there are books to tell you why Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.
You can read books on philosophy, music, art, psychology, health, medicine or alternative medicine, rock music, the sixties, and more. From stagecraft to warcraft to witchcraft, from puppetry to poetry, from cooking to cosmetology to cosmology, there’s a diverse and dazzling world of information, education, elucidation, and just plain entertainment waiting for you.
You can stick to reading about the subjects that interest you most or be a REAL explorer and venture into divergent subjects that are far afield from your usual areas of interest.
Be an explorer. Read a book today.