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 Politics | Spain 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. |
 Our Only World |  Light of the Stars |  Stardust |
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History, Economics and Politics
 Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History |
 Hitler's Spy Chief |  The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 |
 Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason |
 The Lessons of History |
 The Souls of Black Folk |  How Jesus Became God |
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Spain and Spanish History
 The Mexican Suitcase |
 Dominique Lapierre Or I'll Dress You in Mourning: The Story of El Cordobés and the New Spain He Stands For |
 Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity |  The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War |
 Diccionario onomástico de la guerra civil (Onomastic Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War) |
 Qué está pasando en Cataluña (What is Happening in Catalonia) |  The Spanish Civil War |
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General
 Phantoms on the Bookshelves |  Keep Curious and Carry a Banana |
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