{"id":2195,"date":"2010-09-16T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2010-09-16T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:43:08","slug":"all-right-another-favorite-books-question-what-books-waked-your-sense-of-the-natural-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/all-right-another-favorite-books-question-what-books-waked-your-sense-of-the-natural-world\/","title":{"rendered":"All right, another favorite books question: what books waked your sense of the natural world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m of the pre-tv generation&#8212;and I think that makes a difference. Some of my most favorite were Richard Halliburton&#8217;s travel books: he claimed to have been in various forbidden places, including a night-time dip in the Taj Mahal&#8217;s reflecting pool. And he did have photos. [Not of the skinny-dipping event.] He vanished in the China Sea in a storm, on a Chinese junk. Which is a way for a writer to make an exit. I also read Edgar Rice Burroughs, both the Tarzan and eventually [as a teen] the Mars books. I read the Oz books, which have a lot about traveling and adventure, and I think that played a part. And I read Maneaters of Kumaon, by Corbett, about India before one ever thought of ecology. All those books were special to me, in that regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m of the pre-tv generation&#8212;and I think that makes a difference. Some of my most favorite were Richard Halliburton&#8217;s travel books: he claimed to have been in various forbidden places, including a night-time dip in the Taj Mahal&#8217;s reflecting pool. And he did have photos. [Not of the skinny-dipping event.] He vanished in the China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}