Get Out Your Towels
May 25 is Towel Day, created as a tribute to author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans celebrate Adams' brief but influential life by carrying a towel with them wherever they go.
A towel, in Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is considered the "most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have". As the book explains "any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with".
The importance of towels is said to have been inspired by the author's inability to keep track of his own towel at the beach.
If you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you should do so immediately.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Life, the Universe and Everything
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Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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Mostly Harmless
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A sixth book in the series, And Another Thing…,was completed after Adams' death by Eoin Colfer with the support of Adams' widow Jane Belson.
Other Books by Douglas Adams
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The Dirk Gently series:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
One of my favourite books by Douglas Adams, it documents journeys Adams took with zoologist Mark Carwardine to see endangered animals.
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The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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One thought on “Get Out Your Towels”
Thanks M! It’s a friend of mine’s birthday today and I suggested to her that she celebrate it along with Towel Day, and she said she would do her best to comply!
Debby