Novel Adventurers

 A Book from Strahov Monastery Library Collection in Prague written in old Czech, far more complex than its modern dialect When visi...

Bilingual road signs in Corsica with the French names crossed out and the Corsu names showing beneath them. UNESCO classifies Corsu as ...

By IINightwolfII When I send an email to my non-Australian friends, sometimes I think I should include a glossary of terms. It’s common f...

St. Jerome, patron saint of translators Years ago, in graduate school, a professor offered a piece of advice that has remained with me th...

This week’s Off the Beaten Track contributor is the lovely Phillipa Fioretti. Phillipa was born in Sydney, Australia, and studied humanit...

Years ago, enamored by photographs of Dutch tulips that smiled at me from every page of my fall planting catalogues, I took a trip to Amster...

That’s what they call me around here, in this wide world of Novel Adventurers. Yesterday, I pulled a prank on one of them, telling h...