02-20-2013, 12:57 PM | #16 |
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Amitav Gosh: In an antique land. History in the guise of a traveller's tale. From Amazon: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. I second The last days of old Bejing |
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River of Doubt:Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard Quote:
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Third The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed.
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This would actually be a 3rd. It has already received a 2nd. It has already received a 3rd and is fully nominated. You still have 3 spots left. Last edited by Nyssa; 02-20-2013 at 01:13 PM. |
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I 2nd The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and 3rd Wild.
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I would like to nominate In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. (It's also published as Down Under).
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I think we've has enough of Australia given that we've just read A Town Like Alice. You might want to withdraw your nomination.
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Second In a Sunburned Country
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I'll third The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
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Fourth *In a Sunburned Country*
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Please edit your message and change your Overdrive link for Wild to the one I've posted as it encompasses ePub, Overdrive Read, Kindle, and audiobooks. Yours only shows the ePub edition.
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Second Amitav Gosh: In an antique land.
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