Tim
My blogs
| Introduction | If I'm not lost in a library or buried in a bookshop somewhere, you'll most likely find me in a queue waiting to board an aeroplane. I'm primarily based in London, but for much of the year I work overseas in museums in a variety of different countries. This blog is intended to be a journal of thoughts and impressions gleaned from my travels, from my reading, and from my writing and research projects - it's an exploration in the most personal sense of the word, and of the world at large. |
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| Interests | Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geography, Cartography, Geometry, Religion, Philosophy, Languages, History, Travel, Books, Libraries, Museums, Tea & Biscuits |
| Favorite Movies | The Fall - directed by Tarsem, The Last Emperor - directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky - directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Empire of the Sun - directed by Steven Spielberg, Time Bandits - directed by Terry Gilliam, Wall-E - by Pixar |
| Favorite Music | Ludwig van Beethoven - 7th Symphony, Gabriel Faure - Requiem, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Talvin Singh - Anokha, The Primitives - Lovely |
| Favorite Books | Ring of Fire - by Lawrence Blair with Lorne Blair, Testament - by John Romer, Black River of Tibet - by John Hanbury Tracy, We Tibetans - by Rinchen Lhamo, China in Turmoil - by Louis Magrath King, Seeking Robinson Crusoe - by Tim Severin, Freedom from Fear - by Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma - by Aung San Suu Kyi, Open Letters - by Vaclav Havel, Shadow of the Silk Road - by Colin Thubron, To a Mountain in Tibet - by Colin Thubron, White Mughals - by William Dalrymple, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road - by Peter Hopkirk, Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind - by Charles Nicholl, Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations - by Charles Nicholl, The Library at Night - by Alberto Manguel, The Sheltering Sky - by Paul Bowles, Foucault's Pendulum - by Umberto Eco, Our Man in Havana - by Graham Greene, Three Men in a Boat - by Jerome K. Jerome |