And Another Train of Thought: Samuel Eliot Morison

First spotted on the Q train (November 7, 2008):

"America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy."

Samuel Eliot Morrison (1887-1976) The Oxford History of the American People (1965), Ch. 2 "The European Discovery of America."

Bookpeeping on the Q Train

In another installment of bookpeeping, on the Q train this afternoon, there was a flurry of reading around me. The following books were being read within five feet of me:

Forbidden by Suzanne Brockmann

~A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

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Crime and the American Dream (Wadsworth Series in Criminological Theory)
by Steven F. Messner
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Hoodwinked by Quentin Carter
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Friends with Benefits by Lawrence C. Ross Jr.
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Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
by Andrew D. Blechman

Titles link Amazon. Author names are linked to author web sites.

I'll credit the Blechman book for inspiring me to bookpeep today.