Böcker av George Colon

A Bronx teacher trots the globe, floating down many rivers, climbing many mountains from Europe to the Orient in a quest to understand humanity. Walking the Bible in Israel in the footsteps of Hebrew prophets and Jesus-from Bethlehem down to the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha, past the remains of Solomon's Temple-and dipping his hand in the Jordon River, he ponders religion.Bathing in the Nile river like Moses, he dries his feet on the dry Saharan sands, but first scales the pyramids in a search for answers to humanity's quest for immortality before gazing on the pharaohs 'mummies. Sailing down European rivers and trudging through many bloodstained roads, he ponders man's inhumanity to man. Then, scaling the Great Wall of China, he remembers the poet Robert Frost's.

You come back wavering shapes Out of the past in which you first appeared You crowd, you press As from the mist you now appear.

From Jonas Bronck and the Indians, Ann Hutchinson, Edgar Allan Poe and Jordan Mott, to the fires, and then, the Phoenix rises. A history of my Precioso El Bronx.

"My life had a purpose In my students, I will live on, too. I was a friend, a father - and at times a mother. I gave them compassion and touched their lives. But teachers do more. Teachers teach. I taught."