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[DFlynSqrl]

Just finished "Into Africa:  The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone" by Martin Dugard.

I really enjoyed it!

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[JollyBob]

Picked this up today:



Listed on Amazon for nearly thirty quid, bought mine from The Works for £2.99. 

A great big book (784 pages!) full of fascinating stuff about prehistoric cultures around the world, plenty of maps and illustrations, a real treasure trove for intersting terrain ideas too.

[Hammers]

Picked this up today:



Listed on Amazon for nearly thirty quid, bought mine from The Works for £2.99. 

A great big book (784 pages!) full of fascinating stuff about prehistoric cultures around the world, plenty of maps and illustrations, a real treasure trove for intersting terrain ideas too.

To use for your Homo Floriensis (i.e. 'Hobbit') project?

[JollyBob]

Well quite.    And you never know when a return to the Lost World will be on the cards, do you...?

[Poiter50]

2 copies of Death in a Dark Continent.

[JollyBob]

The Works does it again:



A lovely little book giving a potted history of the Bretheren of the Coast and character studies of some of the more colourful characters and actions during the Golden Age of Piracy.

[Hammers]

"Stora Hästen" by Sven Hedin, first edition 1934.

It is an first hand accord of the warlord wars in Sinkiang (Xinjiang, Chinese/East Turkestan, Uyghuristan, whathaveyoustan...). It his own experiences as a cartographer and explorer he is writing about. It's a BoB aficionado's wet dream, it has it all: Ford trucks, Tungans, Mongols, Turkmeniens, corrupt Chinese governors, White Russian settlers. Sven Hedin was quite a character himself, a romantic and Hitlerite, so his style is quite, um, dashing, chosing my words carefully there.

May I also plug another Swedish author who will be published in English a year from now?

[wiki]Peter Englund[/wiki], the chappie who announces the Nobel Price laureate in Litterature, has written the most touching read on WWI what I read so far. I can't stress this enough, it is profoundly touching, and I can see people like Plybkes and Helen enjoying it very much. What makes it stand out is, and which is a bit of his trade mark, that you get a very convincing sense of how the Great War felt to people. It is written in 212 short chapters in about 550 pages, from the perspective of about 20 very different *and* real people. A 13-year old German girl on the home front, a Brazilian adventurer in Ottoman service, a French public servant, a British VC trench raider, a Belgian ace, a Australian ambulance driver in Saloniki, the list goes on...
All these different vies, all first hand accounts, put together into a coherent interpretation by Peter Englund, in a way in which he has proven himself before. Perhaps some of you are familiar with John Prebble who wrote 'Culloden'. PE was very much inspired by him when he wrote a the book 'Poltava' (about the GNW), also translated to English.

[Helen]

"Stora Hästen" by Sven Hedin, first edition 1934.

It is an first hand accord of the warlord wars in Sinkiang (Xinjiang, Chinese/East Turkestan, Uyghuristan, whathaveyoustan...). It his own experiences as a cartographer and explorer he is writing about. It's a BoB aficionado's wet dream, it has it all: Ford trucks, Tungans, Mongols, Turkmeniens, corrupt Chinese governors, White Russian settlers. Sven Hedin was quite a character himself, a romantic and Hitlerite, so his style is quite, um, dashing, chosing my words carefully there.

May I also plug another Swedish author who will be published in English a year from now?

[wiki]Peter Englund[/wiki], the chappie who announces the Nobel Price laureate in Litterature, has written the most touching read on WWI what I read so far. I can't stress this enough, it is profoundly touching, and I can see people like Plybkes and Helen enjoying it very much. What makes it stand out is, and which is a bit of his trade mark, that you get a very convincing sense of how the Great War felt to people. It is written in 212 short chapters in about 550 pages, from the perspective of about 20 very different *and* real people. A 13-year old German girl on the home front, a Brazilian adventurer in Ottoman service, a French public servant, a British VC trench raider, a Belgian ace, a Australian ambulance driver in Saloniki, the list goes on...
All these different vies, all first hand accounts, put together into a coherent interpretation by Peter Englund, in a way in which he has proven himself before. Perhaps some of you are familiar with John Prebble who wrote 'Culloden'. PE was very much inspired by him when he wrote a the book 'Poltava' (about the GNW), also translated to English.

Thanks Peder,

I'll keep an eye out for this book when it's release.

Helen

[twrchtrwyth]

Strange Aeons finally arrived.

Damn post took ages.

[Helen]

I love this book 

[Sp0n]

Just received Third Reich Victorious - Alternate Decisions of World War II in the mail:
[Removed pic of the book - Half a swastika is showing, and that's a no-go, right?]

[answer_is_42]

Just received an original copy of National Geographic magazine from October 1931 which my parents picked up for £1 (!) in a second hand book shop in Hastings. Loads of photos of chaps in pith helmets on expeditions across Persia, Burma, etc. The title of the first article is “The Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition Reaches Kashmir”. Great stuff.

[Calimero]

From Amazon.ca

   

I bought these two books with the intention of painting and selling 28mm Napoleonic units. I’m a little disappointed in fact because they are just glancing at the subject of Napoleonic Uniforms for the main powers and not much more. They have, to me at least, some very interesting plate though and give me plenty of ideas on units to paint. The fact is that, given the price I paid for those two books (56$ - Canadian $), they are useful (if you don’t already own a good selection of books on Napoleonic Uniforms). I’ve just glance thru the books so far, looking at the pictures and plates, and I’m eager to read them to see if I will find other useful information.

[Aaron]

Thanks Calimero. I was considering adding both of those to the reference library. I PM'ed you with a list of links of Napoleonic uniform references online. You might have them already, but the electrons were free.

[Calimero]

Thanks very much for your PM Aaron. I did know of some of the Internet source but I lost most of these URL when I try to clean up the computer… stupid me! 
As for the list of books, I also know some of them but not all… the problem now is that they all look very tempting!
The French text are not a problem for me since I’m a Québécois (French-Canadian for those who play FIW )