by envisionmg | May 20, 2022 | Jim Reviews
The story of Cabeza de Vaca is one that I was dimly aware of from High School and College history classes but I never got the detail and perspective afforded by A Land So Strange. The basic story was de Vaca ends up being one of the few survivors of and expedition...
by envisionmg | Apr 27, 2022 | Jim Reviews
After finishing a reread of Martha Wells’ Murder Bot Diaries series I was looking for something similar to read. You may not know this but the library has access to a program that helps you pick new books to read: Novelist. I availed myself of its services and...
by envisionmg | Mar 21, 2022 | Jim Reviews
In some ways The Brothers York is your standard history of the Wars of the Roses. It follows the myriad of factions vying for the English throne. All of the side switching and reverses of those factions. However, Penn does make an interesting argument. For all this...
by envisionmg | Feb 25, 2022 | Jim Reviews
David Green’s The Hudrend Years War is not a standard chronological history of the Hundred Years War. In fact if you need a history that follows the course of the war this probably isn’t the book for you. What this book does really well is cataloging the...
by envisionmg | Feb 4, 2022 | Jim Reviews
The unique thing about Thompson’s Sea People isn’t that it’s a history of Polynesia but that it is a history of the search to figure out who Polynesians were. Ever since Ferdinand Magellan first crossed the Pacific Europeans have been trying to...
by envisionmg | Jan 28, 2022 | Jim Recommends, Jim Reviews
The Voyagers. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed...
