Excerpts from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations by Glenn Alan Cheney, including
Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America,
Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland
The Cat Caboodle: A Litter Box of Cat Facts and Curiosities
Journey to Chernobyl: Encounters in a Radioactive Zone
Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
The Merry burial Compendium
Notions from a Time of Peril
Lurking Doubt: Notes...
A collection of paintings, photography, and design by Glenn Alan Cheney with a foreword that explores his development through genres in a career that has stretched over the course of half a century.
A small family ventures up the Amazon, and then up a tributary, and then another, with The Gumball King. They soon get into lots of trouble with gold miners, timber rustlers, and Indians. At the same time, They're feeling the temptations that tend to come with tropical heat.
The story is a rollicking spoof that actually touches on real problems in today's Amazonia.
Brief essays by Glenn Alan Cheney, written for The Day and The Norwich Times between January 2020 and August 2021. Cheney discusses wide variety of topics-dogs, skunks, the Pilgrims, submarines, golf, mascots, statues, nature, lawns, election cakes, green burial, alarm clocks, couches, covid, hiccups, and so much more, all in a unique vein of humor and philosophy.
Portraits of missionary sisters as they work in some of the most difficulty, dangerous, and turbulent parts of the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Central America during the revolutionary period. Northern Mexico during the migration to the United States. Swaziland during the AIDS epidemic. Italy during the aftermath of World War II. Argentina during the military regime. Brazil during the rise in crime and fall of the environment. These s...
Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as:How many beehives equal the weight of one space shuttle?How many Americans can't vote because they've been in jail?Why would you not want Oscar the Cat to sleep on your bed?What did Crown Prince Philip of France's horse trip over?What is Hell Money?Who was the first cat in space and where was she from?Who said "Death makes everything useless"?What's wrong with The Paper Clip...
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival. With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of t...
Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the topics are prison conditions, effect on prisoners and families, effectiveness of solitary confinement, famous prison breaks, education in prisons, societal benefits, quotes, and much more.
Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, most of it still unpaved, winding through historic Baroque cities such as Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Serro, and, at the northern end, Diamantina.
As the 20th century rolled over into the 21st, life along the Estrada Real was in many ways still in the 19th. Hoping to cap...
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.
They bowed their heads to give thanks.
The Pilgrims' journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but it soon became a matter of survival.
With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, damp space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing...
A rich collection of newspaper articles, editorial, and opinions published in the days before and weeks following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The foreword is by U.S. Representative Joe Courtney. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs from the period and a comprehensive index. The reporting is emotional, graphic, detailed and sometimes even poetic. To read these contemporary accounts is to share the experience that American...
Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris, Rex P. Nielson, Leila Osman, Marissel Hernández Romero, Steven K. Smith, Lisandra Sousa, Luciana Tanure, and Nelson Vieira. Stories include Nuptial Son...
The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20, 000 or more, it had a quasi-parliamentary government, egalitarian society, and a massive mountaintop citadel fortress. It was at almost constant war with the largest empires on earth. It was finally overrun in 1694. Not a single artifact remains.
The book ends with a chapter that explores the myths of P...
The name Chernobyl is now etched forever into human history. It was the scene of a man-made disaster, the full implications of which are still not known. Exactly what happened on April 26, 1986, remains a mystery. But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the people of Ukraine were free at last to talk about what they knew. Glenn Cheney, who has traveled widely, spent more than six weeks in the Chernobyl area, arriving in Kiev during those ...
Glenn Cheney began a love affair with Brazil when he impulsively hitch-hiked there from Connecticut in 1974. Less than a decade later, disillusioned with the hectic New York lifestyle, he and his wife bought a rural banana farm in the state of Minas Gerais, the region through which the Estrada Real road winds its mountainous way. Cheney's familiarity with the area adds richness and depth to this travelogue, the compelling story of his journey ...
