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Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a …
Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique …
Cross, double-cross. Femme fatale. "You guys are a bunch of Lollypops."
Cross, double-cross. Femme fatale. "You guys are a bunch of Lollypops."
At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. …
Good.
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by …
There is a sense of grief pervading the book. A beautiful thing has been lost, is being lost, will be lost, unless we change. We seem no closer to achieving this goal today than we were when this book was first published in 1948, scant years before the author died fighting a prarie fire.
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …
Still great
fantastic.
I don't think I've ever read a book about the history of trying to answer a question. Christina Thompson looks in to all the different ways people throughout time have tried to understand the origins of the Polynesian people who live in the Pacific. The book covers legends, ethnographic research, archeology, linguistic research, carbon dating, geneology, and other methods. My favorite chapters were about people in the 1960s-70s trying to recreate old sailing vessels and navigating using a blend of ancient and modern navigational methods.
I don't think I've ever read a book about the history of trying to answer a question. Christina Thompson looks in to all the different ways people throughout time have tried to understand the origins of the Polynesian people who live in the Pacific. The book covers legends, ethnographic research, archeology, linguistic research, carbon dating, geneology, and other methods. My favorite chapters were about people in the 1960s-70s trying to recreate old sailing vessels and navigating using a blend of ancient and modern navigational methods.
Excellent book.
There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.
I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.
There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.
I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.
It's old school history. Opinionated and historical.
It's old school history. Opinionated and historical.
It was an ending, and I liked it.
When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out …
Superb.
Action > Campaign > Movement
" Historia del tiempo " es un libro de divulgación sobre el espacio y el …
Alas, this book did not magically make quantum mechanics easier to understand.
I'll get back to it
I'll get back to it