Quick Hit Book Reviews

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

These are books I read before I began writing the full-length reviews, so I'm offering here 'quick hit' reviews of them.

Categories (Click on a category to jump down to it.)
Science and Nature
History, Economics and PoliticsSpain and Spanish History
General



Science and Nature
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Worst Journey in the World
A captivating memoir from a member of the team that journeyed to Antarctica with Robert Scott as he made his ultimately doomed attempt to reach the South Pole first; an epic tale of survival against daunting odds.
Sara Wheeler
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley Cherry-Garrard participated in Robert Scott's epic journey to Antarctica, and wrote the brilliant memoir The Worst Journey in the World.  Sara Wheeler's biography captures wonderfully his fascinating life.
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-review-our-only-world-by-wendell.html
Wendell Berry
Our Only World


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History, Economics and Politics
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2019/12/book-review-nervous-states-democracy.html
William Davies
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2017/10/book-review-lessons-of-history-by-will.html
Will and Ariel Durant
The Lessons of History
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-souls-of-black-folk-by-web.html
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2015/09/book-review-how-jesus-became-god-by.html
Bart Ehrman
How Jesus Became God


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Spain and Spanish History
Larry Collins and
Dominique Lapierre

Or I'll Dress You in Mourning:
The Story of El Cordobés and the New Spain He Stands For
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2018/01/book-review-what-is-happening-in.html
Eduardo Mendoza
Qué está pasando en Cataluña
(What is Happening in Catalonia)
Hugh Thomas
The Spanish Civil War


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General
Jacques Bonnet
Phantoms on the Bookshelves


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