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What book are you reading right now?
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1421 - Gavin Menzies
"...On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. The journey would last over two years and circle the globe.
When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans..."
Factual based book. Very eye opening on what we originally thought was known about world exploration and discovery.
"...On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. The journey would last over two years and circle the globe.
When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans..."
Factual based book. Very eye opening on what we originally thought was known about world exploration and discovery.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie lee
Essentially his second volume of autobiography after Cider With Rosie, it was written much later but picks up where his first volume left off. In it, Lee leaves his countryside home in 1935 and walks to London where he works for a while before taking a ferry to Vigo in northern Spain and walks all around the country learing about Spanish peasant life and living on whatever he can find growing by the roadside plus the pesetas he can get for playing the fiddle. Eventually he settles in Andalusia only for the Spanish Civil War to break out around him to his horror. I always try to read at least one book about Spain while I am out here and this one is just stunning. Incredibly evocative and beautifully written in lucid, glistening prose. Highly recpommended.
Essentially his second volume of autobiography after Cider With Rosie, it was written much later but picks up where his first volume left off. In it, Lee leaves his countryside home in 1935 and walks to London where he works for a while before taking a ferry to Vigo in northern Spain and walks all around the country learing about Spanish peasant life and living on whatever he can find growing by the roadside plus the pesetas he can get for playing the fiddle. Eventually he settles in Andalusia only for the Spanish Civil War to break out around him to his horror. I always try to read at least one book about Spain while I am out here and this one is just stunning. Incredibly evocative and beautifully written in lucid, glistening prose. Highly recpommended.
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NUKE HIM DANNY!
johnnydawg68
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Read it. Interesting read. Lots of BS theories in there though.
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Difficult to follow, the soviet bit was like pulling teeth.
johnnydawg68
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It's been a few years since I read it. I just remember the whole "who killed JFK? " scenario as being questionable. But as part of a larger study of espionage history, it has it's place.
The girl who played with fire second in the millenum trilogy.
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maybe shoulda just posted here before posted on everton forum.
Scally - Andy Nicholls, about an evertonian football hooligan.
saw it in airport b4 hols and very interesting and eye opening read
footy was nuts back then lol
Scally - Andy Nicholls, about an evertonian football hooligan.
saw it in airport b4 hols and very interesting and eye opening read
footy was nuts back then lol
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