{"id":45271,"date":"2025-12-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45271"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:12:04","slug":"the-gutsy-girl-north-african-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/the-gutsy-girl-north-african-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gutsy Girl \/ North African Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHEREVER YOU ARE ON THE THE HAVING GUTS SCALE, YOU CAN LEVEL UP WITH GUTSY GIRL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure<\/em>
by Caroline Paul
Bloomsbury USA
2016, 160 pages, 6.4 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If ever there was a book I wished was around when I was little, it\u2019s The Gutsy Girl<\/em>. But I\u2019m just as glad to have it in the world now. While I would have read it to pieces as a kid, it also gave grown-up me a powerful reminder: bravery and resilience are skills. Anyone can develop them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gutsy Girl<\/em> comprises author Caroline Paul\u2019s stories of her own (mis)adventures, accompanied by short bios and quotes from other inspiring ladies, and helpful how-tos (make a compass outside, find the North Star, recognize animal tracks, etc.). All together, the book is everything it promises to be: escapades for your life of epic adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the book, Paul models adventure through her own life, from racing a boat she made of milk cartons down a river as a young girl, to white-water rafting and working as a firefighter as an adult. And she shares what she\u2019s learned along the way. While the lessons \u2014 about planning, communication, teamwork, knowing your limits and when to push them \u2013 and when not to \u2014 are valuable, I think the bigger idea is that all of her failures and triumphs are part of a learning process. With each new experience, Paul tests, hones, and ultimately grows her own bravery and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This idea is also sweetly captured by the book\u2019s illustrator Wendy MacNaughton in a drawing titled \u201cThe Gutsy-O-Meter.\u201d Readers are asked to rate themselves on a meter that swings from low guts (watching TV and sleeping) to high guts (sleeping to scaling ice cliffs.) If you\u2019re at six (sleeping outside), the book encourages you to try seven (navigating through woods by compass). If you\u2019re already a 10 \u2014 watch out world! \u2013 Sara Distin at Tiny Bop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SHOT IN THE \u201870S, NORTH AFRICAN VILLAGES SHOWS MEDIEVAL VILLAGES UNCHANGED BY MODERNITY<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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North African Villages: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia<\/em>
by Norman F. Carver
Documan Pr Ltd
1989, 200 pages, 9 x 10.5 x 0.5 inches (softcover)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 1970s an architectural student drove a VW van around Italy, the Iberian peninsula, and northern Africa, recording the intact medieval villages still operating in their mountain areas. The hill towns at that time in Italy, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia kept a traditional way of building without architects, using indigenous materials, without straight streets, producing towns of uncommon attractiveness. The architect, Norman Carver, later self published a series of photo books documenting these remote villages which had not yet been interrupted with modernity. They looked, for most purposes, like they looked 1,000 years ago. All of Carter\u2019s books are worthwhile, but my favorite is North African Villages<\/em>. Here you get a portrait of not just the timeless architecture, but also a small glimpse of the lives that yielded that harmony of the built upon the born. It\u2019s an ideal of organic design, that is, design that is accumulated over time. \u2013 Kevin Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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