About the Author
Scott Huler is the author of six books, including Defining the Wind and No Man's Lands. Widely published in newspapers nationwide, he has won awards for his writing and his work on NPR. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Obras por Scott Huler
Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry (2004) 294 exemplares
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work (2010) 158 exemplares
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1959
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Clevland, Ohio, USA (birthplace)
- Educação
- Washington University, 1981
- Ocupações
- journalist
writer
Membros
Críticas
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a… por Scott Huler
Again, the best kind of history, a book about a very specific topic and how it changed the world.
Reasonably entertaining look at the unnoticed systems that make most parts of the US much more livable (as long as we maintain them, which we pretty much aren’t …). Focusing on Raleigh, North Carolina, Huler investigates sewer pipes, water connections, electric wires, and road systems, pointing out the ways in which we depend on these large endeavors and the continual maintenance work of people whose expertise is largely invisible. If you like infrastructure, worth a read.
How meta: an odyssey exploring Homer's The Odyssey. Scott Huler has a baby on the way and one last adventure in his soul. Picking up a copy of the epic poem, he connects with it in a way that he didn't when he first read it decades earlier.
He sets off, travelling lightly and cheaply, to visit each of the main stops on Odysseus's troubled journey home. Or at least the places that most closely resemble the mythological places.
Huler sums up the lessons of The Odyssey: the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love, the failure of self-glory, and the importance of family. He learns to fully appreciate the central theme: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love.
The book is part travelogue and part critical reading of The Odyssey, with a mix of personal self-realization thrown. To me, the key signal of my enjoyment of this book is that it made we want to blow the dust off the edition of The Odyssey from my college days and really read it this time.… (mais)
He sets off, travelling lightly and cheaply, to visit each of the main stops on Odysseus's troubled journey home. Or at least the places that most closely resemble the mythological places.
Huler sums up the lessons of The Odyssey: the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love, the failure of self-glory, and the importance of family. He learns to fully appreciate the central theme: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love.
The book is part travelogue and part critical reading of The Odyssey, with a mix of personal self-realization thrown. To me, the key signal of my enjoyment of this book is that it made we want to blow the dust off the edition of The Odyssey from my college days and really read it this time.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 617
- Popularidade
- #40,747
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 13
- ISBN
- 23
- Línguas
- 1
