Alan Berdan

Alan Berdan uploaded a cover image to The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Penguin poets) Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Alan Berdan uploaded a cover image to Arabian Sands Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Alan Berdan uploaded a cover image to Traveler's Joy Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Alan Berdan uploaded a cover image to Honey and your health, a nutrimental, medicinal and historical commentary Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Alan Berdan uploaded a cover image to The Creative Writer Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Alan Berdan edited the memorable quotes of Until Tuesday Sunday, July 31, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “P.07: Because of him, for the first time in a long time, I appreciate the simple moments with my dog at my side. And not just because it was so hard for Tuesday and me to achieve them, but because moments of quiet friendship are what make life — everyone's life — so grand.”
• Added a quotation: “P.15: I was once told there are two types of dogs: leaners and nonleaners. Leaners are always touching you, rubbing against your hip when they walk past, flopping on your feet when they rest, putting their paws on your lap when you sit down. Non-leaners stand a few feet away, lie near you but never on top of you. This is not lack of affection. They are with you, but they want their space.”

Alan Berdan edited the memorable quotes of The Man Who Cycled the World Friday, July 29, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “P.254: The only people in sight were three men by a pickup, so I wheeled over to ask them if there was anywhere else.There were dressed like labourers, in jeans. Two had T-shirts on and the other a checked shirt. The shirted one had a handlebar mustache and impressive tattoos down both arms to his wrists, and a swallow on the back of both hands. One of the others was smaller, less well built, with a shaved head. The last of them was fairly nondescript: white, short hair, average build. He was maybe ten years younger, in his midtwenties. They were alll leaning on the back of the pickup when I arrived.”

Alan Berdan edited the memorable quotes of The Man Who Cycled the World Thursday, July 28, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “P.162: On one country section I passed a team of twenty men digging up the tar by hand with pack-axes. They stopped, stared, then shouted and waved at me, with the same workmen cheer you find the world over, happy at their tough job, perhaps because they had one another.”

Alan Berdan edited the memorable quotes of The Man Who Cycled the World Tuesday, July 26, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “P.60-61: My vegetarianism has never been about the taste of meat. Having grown up on a farm I had always eaten and enjoyed meat. It was simply through a dislike of many industrial farming standards and the cruelty in commercial abbatoirs that I preferred not to eat meat when given the choice. In Scotland you almost always get this choice.”
• Added a quotation: “P.75: You can tell a lot about a country from the number and style of its petrol stations. At the first of these I discovered Ulker Biskrem, a Turkish biscuit which comes in apple, fig, and chocolate varieties; it would become a staple for the next weeks.”

Alan Berdan edited the memorable quotes of Ask the Pilot Monday, July 25, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “P.167-168: Nobody maintains that the airflow in a pressurized fuselage is akin to an autumn breeze, and the efficacy of ventilation systems varies make to make. Contrary to rumour, however, cabin air is surprisingly fresh and clean. Outside air is blended with recycled cabin air, then routed through hospital quality, microbe-trapping filter. All in all it's no dirtier or more pathogen-laden than you'll find in most enclosed public spaces.”
• Added a quotation: “P.267: If your beloved proposes to you in seat 5E, or you have some life-altering epiphany in row 32, and would like a frameable immortalization of the setting, jot down your plane's registration and pay a visit to http://www.airliners.net. This amazingly comprehensive database of airliner photography allows you to pull up ot only representative models, but individual aircraft. Enter N334AA or N612UA and you'll be shown better-day shots of the two 767s that hit the World Trade Center.”