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September 6, 2018

Review: History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration, Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Rating: 4 out of 5 I really enjoyed this one; the scope was broad and the inclusive style of the author took in the…

September 6, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 I took a liking to the story of Mr Shackleton and the ill-fated Imperial Transantarctic Expedition nearly as soon…

September 5, 2018

Not having written about any castles in a while, I am not sure my mindset is the same as it was beforehand. I have…

September 4, 2018

Rating: 3 out of 5 I found this an enlightening series, mostly based on the fact that everyone knows so little about the Etruscans….

September 3, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a story of the full depth of human emotion. We are not dealing with an unbiased look…

September 1, 2018

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is quite directly an overview of the Celts as it is understood by the most recent researchers: Scotland,…

August 31, 2018

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…

August 27, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a wonderful moment when one reads the words of another person, and in these finds that they…

August 24, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Zahn’s entries into the now-Legends universe were always welcome; perhaps the main reason for this was that his…

August 23, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 The Spitfire is a plane most everyone can imagine when it gets mentioned. But, really, it is far more…