Terrian Journals' A Sketch of Terrian History is an introduction to global history for decolonized and denationalized people. This is a thoughtful, challenging introduction, questioning many of the conventions, assumptions, and definitions that go unquestioned in schooling, communications media, and daily conversation. A Sketch of Terrian History looks at past, present, and future from the perspective of humanity as a whole instead of only the rulers, empires, and nation-states.

Author Biography

The author of the Terrian Journals series begins writing A Sketch of Terrian History while living in Rio de Janeiro, Cordoba, and Valparaiso when nasty military dictatorships are on the way out and democracies are returning, seven years before the Berlin Wall collapses. The writing of this book and others continues while the author is living in Fukuoka, Barcelona, Djakarta, Singapore, Tokyo, Quebec, Fort de France, Quito, Santiago de Cuba, Miyazaki, etc. Travelling extensively, tens of thousands of kilometres overland, on foot, by thumb, bus, train, trishaw, and rickshaw, he crosses vast stretches of the Americas from Ushuaia to Inuvik, Asiaeur from Vladivostok to Tallin, southern Asia from Chittagong to Delhi, etc. He takes some ferries and planes too. He is invited to stay in ordinary people's homes or sleeps in very modest hotels, and sometimes in a tent. Some of these adventures are alone, others are with his Carioca friend Zita, and yet others are with his Kyushu partner Mariko. Before any of this, he is born in a subarctic city of Canada and earns degrees in political science, adult education, journalism, and community planning at three universities in Ontario and B.C. His work includes community journalism, planning, cooperative housing, civil liberties, and adult education. He and his partner work on their own in a very tiny, virtually non-profit adult education organization, which they carry with them.