the book shows its age: the guy is your prototype orientalist white scholar-cum-adventurer and no surprise some claims float around that Indiana Jones is based on this character. Thrill seeking, entitled, opinionated and racist AF yet the whole way through he manages to write well enough for me to feel I don’t want to put the book down. I keep thinking that if he gets himself killed when his disguise falls through, he’d bloody well deserved it for lack of respect to other cultures he claims to study, and yet I feel the tension each time he gets into a sticky situation. No indication at the end he paid his servants (enough) for what they had to put up with, or what happened to them when he returned to India!
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tinebeest started reading Seeds of fire by John Minford
Geremie Barmé, John Minford: Seeds of fire (1989, The Noonday Press)
Seeds of fire by Geremie Barmé, John Minford
n the spring of 1989, the world watched breathlessly as the pro-democracy movement swept across China, and it recoiled in …
tinebeest finished reading To Lhasa in Disguise by William Montgomery McGovern
tinebeest finished reading Maigret and the enigmatic lett by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the enigmatic lett by Georges Simenon
Pietr the Lett had for years been clocked across the European frontiers by Interpol. Who was he, this international swindler …
tinebeest finished reading De kleur van dingen by Martin Panchaud
De kleur van dingen by Martin Panchaud
Een prijswinnend grafisch hoogstandje dat de traditionele striptraditie door elkaar schudt. Personages in de vorm van cirkels, van bovenaf en …
tinebeest finished reading Buddha: Volume 7 by Osamu Tezuka
tinebeest finished reading Le pendu de Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon (Le livre de poche -- 14255)
Le pendu de Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon (Le livre de poche -- 14255)
The Crime of Inspector Maigret (other English-language titles are Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien) …
Certainly, in Tibet, salvation from sins seems extraordinarily easy, and it is, I think, a facility which is greatly needed by its inhabitants.
— William Montgomery McGovern, To Lhasa in disguise, 54
— To Lhasa in Disguise by William Montgomery McGovern (Page 54)
Reparations in those days seem to have been a matter more easily and quickly settled then now — William Montgomery McGovern, To Lhasa in disguise, 21
— To Lhasa in Disguise by William Montgomery McGovern (Page 21)
tinebeest reviewed To Lhasa in Disguise by William Montgomery McGovern
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tinebeest finished reading Onderwijs voor de 21ste eeuw by Kris van den Branden
Good overview of chances open for improving education, but also remaining in the final analysis a bit to hopeful or presenting things as easy to achieve in the final part, when you need a totally different culture outside schools to make this work. Ambitious, yes. Achievable? Only with time and effort, but worth a shot
tinebeest started reading Onderwijs voor de 21ste eeuw by Kris van den Branden
tinebeest finished reading Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman
Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 is a work of history written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published …
tinebeest finished reading La tête d'un homme by Georges Simenon
Great story- classic procedural but satisfying to read
tinebeest started reading La tête d'un homme by Georges Simenon
Improving my French by reading on my commute