Books
What is your Quest in life? "The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest," created and edited by Tor and Siffy Torkildson, leads us on a series of pilgrimages and explorations to the far reaches of the planet in search of and to celebrate the meaning of life in 33 essays."The Pilgrimage Chronicles" brings together a vast archive of talent, knowledge, and direct experience. It is a celebration of the human spirit, a tapestry of diversity, and a testament to living one’s dreams.If curiosity is your religion, and high adventure your cup of tea, this book is guaranteed to spin your prayer wheel and satiate your thirst.” Pat Morrow
The Walkabout Chronicles: Epic Journeys by Foot is an adventure-travel anthology featuring some of the greatest explorers, walkers, and writers of our time. These 35 essays span the globe. Represented in the book are world walkers, scientists and archeologists, travelers, artists, explorers, and ordinary people who do extraordinary things. A unique book in the adventure travel genre and destined to become a classic in travel literature.
Korrigan's Shadow is a romance about a young fishing guide and the wild girl he pursues from the north woods of Wisconsin to the world of beat poets in San Francisco during the late l950's. It is a love affair felt both by the children and the solitary men who raised them while urging them, via poetry and philosophy, to honor the mysteries of the feminine, and thus to reclaim, through music and myth, the lost wilderness in their souls. Published by Sacred World Explorations.
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Agadir Dreaming is a novella. In 1960, the city of Agadir was devastated by a massive earthquake; over one-third of the population died. Three young boys managed to survive this catastrophic disaster, which in-turn, sent them fleeing out into the world on grand adventures to Paris, Egypt, and the United States. Fifty years later Ali, Amine, and Hicham return to Morocco; together they unravel their journeys and re-establish their friendships during turbulent times in North Africa. This is a story about survival, hope, and the play of destiny on one’s life.
Cloud Wanderer is the travel memoir of Tor Torkildson's peripatetic quest to live the life he had always imagined. Inspired by a new love in his life, magical journeys to Shambala-like valleys in the Himalaya and the endless horizon of the Sahara, Torkildson takes the reader on a madcapper expedition of hope and excursion into the soul. When Torkildson isn't snorking around the mountain ranges of the world you will find him plotting his next far flung adventure, reading and writing, and drifting about like a Cloud Wanderer.
A Wild Hare is a story of long-lost love, relationships, spirituality and opening one’s heart to a life of dreams. The author travels from her home in Las Vegas to rendezvous with a man she hasn’t seen in 25 years, in Munich, Germany. The chance encounter sends Siffy Torkildson on a three year long odyssey around the world, from the Himalaya to the Sahara, and serves as a catalyst to find her true love and live the life she had always imagined.
In May 2003, peripatetic traveler and writer Rob Torkildson journeyed to a remote island in the Bering Sea in search of an extreme landscape where he hoped to "drop out" of his increasingly secure and uninspiring life and renew his inner sense of wonder and adventure. Elbow Room is a memoir of Rob Torkildson's three years of living in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. This is a colorful and captivating tale of self discovery, adventure and exploration, historical reflections, and a vivid portrait of a striving community trying to hang on in one of the harshest climates on planet Earth.
Rob's first book. A memoir of travel and adventure.
Caroline's first book. A guidebook to Northern California and south-eastern Oregon.
Tor is featured in this new anthology of travel writing about Japan.
Visiting Japan turns the world upside down and inside out—just the way editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King like it. In this eighth anthology of the popular Wandering series, our adventuresome writers set off on yet another exciting trip of discovery, meeting a mysterious geisha, experiencing the dark side of Mount Fuji, confronting a confusing cuisine, encountering spooks and spirits, considering the legacy of Hiroshima, experiencing religious initiation, and connecting with a story of almost unbelievable devotion. Once again, they introduce us to an extraordinary world and invite us to come along.
Work by: Daphne Beyers, Joanna Biggar, Mary Brent Cantarutti, Tom Harrell, Lenny Karpman, Lowry McFerrin, Ethel Mussen, Mary Jean Pramik, Michele Rivers, Tania Romanov, Anne Sigmon, Rob “Tor” Torkildson and more …