Customer Review: Bill Bryson has done it again.
Not only an amusing frolic around and in Australia, but also a very insightful historical dabble into this somewhat forgotten "planet". Bryson travels by train and car digging up meaningful and significant events from years gone by to present times. Former... more info
Customer Review: A terrific story, painful to read because of the many wasted opportunities. I wish this book were on any commander's reading list. Especially the Special Forces guys: an exercise in modesty and realpolitics.
Customer Review: Book Review: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten years in the North Korean gulag, by Kang Chol-Hwan I thought this book might be a hard read. The Aquariums of Pyongyang chronicles the life of the author as a boy who, at the age of nine, was wrongfully imprisoned with his family in a North Korean... more info
Customer Review: This book is about the causes and consequences of the transportation of British convicts to Australia. This is part of the history of Australia: the beginning of a British colony founded by deported criminals thousands of miles and many months from Britain. Transportation began in 1787 (the First... more info
Customer Review: The limited scope of Kennealy's story, focusing on the first few years of the Australian experiment, allows for a really nice degree of detail in his telling about those years. The narrative style he uses makes this a very enjoyable history as well as a thorough one. Not knowing much about... more info
The Songlines from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $4.94
Customer Review: The first sentence sounded promising:"In Alice Springs - a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Cruisers - I met a Russian who was mapping the sacred sites of the Aboriginals." And indeed what follows in the next thirty or so chapters is a... more info
Customer Review: I first saw the Miramax movie starring Kenneth Branagh, which was based upon this book. I was intrigued enough by the film to read this book. I was not disappointed. This book is certainly a testament to the human spirit. It also reveals the harsh, paternalistic and racist policies that the... more info
Customer Review: I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I saw it online, I thought that it looked interesting. The few reviews were favorable. I enjoy maritime tales, stories and life. I thought that pirates and life aboard ships were interesting decades ago. This was a slow, monotonous account. At... more info
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