Suggested Readings

For those of you stuck inside these days I suggest these two books.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

And

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

When the Great Plague broke out in 1665 Defoe was just a child. He wrote a book called “A Journal of the Plague Years.” (without any press coverage because people could not read back in those days.) The bubonic plague wiped out most of England and Europe. I do not suggest reading the journal because it is too depressing. It is however, a perfect correlation to the Covid 19 experience of today.

I do suggest reading Robinson Crusoe. It is an adventure survival story on how to survive the forces of nature and how to maximize resources found in nature. Next to the Bible it is the most printed, translated and read book in history.

Optional: I first suggest that you read Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to set the foundation of what it takes for human survival in any age.

Have a great day and a great adventure.

Additional Suggested Reading LIst:

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Bible by God

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Meditations On First Philosophy – Rene Descartes

Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Stranger- Albert Camus

The Drunken Boat – Arthur Rimbaud

Candide by Voltaire

The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury

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