Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott are the husband-and-wife storytelling and photography team behind Uncornered Market. They travel deep and off-beat, aiming to connect the world through people, food and adventure. Six years and 75 countries later, they are still going...and still married. Read more…
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Author: Franklin Foer
Who knew you could learn so much about globalization, economics and politics from soccer? Great read.
Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Author: Julia Cameron
One possible path to re-discovering the creativity you never knew you had.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
Author: Jared Diamond
An admirable crack at explaining why the world is the way it is by way of an anthropological macro-history. This book probably comes up the most in conversation as we travel.
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
Author: Bill Shore
Inspiring profiles of social entrepreneurs and projects we all can learn from and hopefully replicate to give back to community.
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Author: John Carlin
Although the storyline is built around the South African rugby team and the 1995 World Cup, this book is more about Nelson Mandela and how he was able to unite a divided country. Inspiring.
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Author: Paul Theroux
The author re-visits Africa and re-assesses the place he once knew... and judges it once and for all. Well written, poignant observations of the thumbprints left by career politicians, aid workers, and everyday people.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
A look at the internal and external factors of how extraordinary people got to be, well, extraordinary. One of those books that challenges assumptions and makes you think differently.
Shantaram: A Novel
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Administering first aid in a Bombay slum, selling fake passports and running guns to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Technically a novel, but closely linked to the Author's own experiences. Fantastic read.
She is nine years old.
She lives in El Salvador.
She sells sugar wafer cookies on buses leaving the market in Santa Ana.
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June 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
And she’s gorgeous.
A sugar wafer for me please!
June 24th, 2009 at 11:47 am
She is beautiful indeed.
But the photo is double-edged. We kept wondering: “Now why isn’t Avi in school?” And she is one of many kid vendors we’ve met around the world.
A friend responded to this photo in an email with the following: “Avi is a gorgeous child. For the problems we have here, The US is still the best gig.”
July 14th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
She is so cute, she is also like a sugar wafer cookie, the snap is very nice & it has natural beauty.
July 2nd, 2011 at 5:47 pm
oh gosh i know about those buses there, for the reason that, that was my hubbys way of transportation when i visited… i feel so bad for all those kids, that i know would love to be at school, but unfortunaly they are the help of their families. mi salvador lindo querido!!!!
July 4th, 2011 at 7:41 am
@Jessica: Buses throughout El Salvador (and Central America in general) are really convenient. But this backstory of the kids is really sad. One day I hope, Avi and kids like her won’t be selling cookies, but they’ll be in school.