Books

A former journalist and editor, Ken likes to do in retirement what he did for a living: write. Only now, he gets to write about topics he really cares about. And Bina helps him with photos, cover designs and editing. Feel free to leave an Amazon review if any of these books strike your fancy.

Sauntering the Spiritual Variant of the Camino de Santiago

The Spiritual Variant is a very special section of the Camino Portuguese. As those of you who followed our blog at the time know, Ken and I walked it in 2019. Ken just published a book about our experience, and it is now available on Amazon: Sauntering the Spiritual Variant of the Camino de Santiago. Hope you enjoy it!

Sauntering to Santiago: The Camino de Santiago for Slow Walkers

In 2018, Ken and I walked the Camino Portuguese from Porto, 270 kms along the beautiful Portuguese coast. If you would like to read the details about our journey, here is a link to the book on Amazon: Sauntering to Santiago.

Mr. Kennis Goes to Yemen

Among Ken’s books, this is his personal favorite: eight months rambling around the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) in the mid-1980s. Yemen is not Kansas, and Ken still considers himself fortunate to have experienced life in one of the most remote — and oddest — countries in the world. Here’s the link.

Tracking the Queen of Sheba: A Travel Memoir of Yemen

A side trip during Ken’s Yemen adventures sent him off with a group of American archaeologists to discover more about the ancient civilization known as Saba, which was almost certainly the equivalent to Biblical “Sheba.” They didn’t dig up the famous queen, but you can learn what Ken did discover in the far eastern wilds of Yemen here.

Village on the Nile: A Travel Memoir of Upper Egypt

Egypt was where Ken’s Middle Eastern adventures got started, back in 1983, far up the Nile River in a village near Luxor. Village on the Nile takes you past the touristic cliches to show how these modern villagers go about their daily lives in the shadow of Pharaonic monuments and a millennia-old culture.