Three new books
Other places, other senses, and a cabin in the woods
Kenny's Cabin, A Treasury of Other Places and Poetry of the Senses join a shelf of travel writing that runs from the Southern Sea to Samurai Road to Madagascar.
From medicine to manuscript
Lawrence Winkler is a physician, traveller and natural philosopher. After a career in medicine he turned to writing, and the result is a shelf of travel books, casebooks and chronicles drawn from decades on the road. He spends his time exploring the globe and tending his gardens and vineyards on Vancouver Island.
- Vancouver Island
- New Zealand
- Madagascar
- Japan
- The South Pacific
The shelf
Eighteen books in three groups: a travel quartet, a trilogy of casebooks, and the standalone journeys and chronicles.
Orion's Cartwheel
A travel quartet, read in order
The Doctor Sababa casebooks
A trilogy
Journeys and chronicles
Standalone books
Blog
All postsThere is a Change in the Weather.
We awoke to rain and wind today. The summer has be graciously indulgent so far, and the pinot noir and chardonnay still think they're in California. I've just posted my 50th instalment of Narrow Road to the Deep North chapter…
Narrow Road To The Deep North
50 parts, July 2015 to August 2015. Midori is a Japanese melon liqueur, the main ingredient in cocktails like The Universe, The Mikado, Fairyland, and Dreaming of Zen. Suntory launched it into the universe during a monster party at Studio 54 in 1978, the same year the…
What a Friend We Have in Jizōs
45 parts, May 2015 to July 2015. We slept where samurai had awoken. Robyn got up at dawn, and opened the curtains, onto Japan’s oldest poem. Since the heavens and earth were parted, it has stood, godlike, lofty and noble...
Follow the journey
An occasional letter when a new book is out or a journey is under way, and the places Lawrence posts along the road.