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Tag Archives: Africa
Baghdad without a Map
Baghdad without a Map and Other Adventures in Arabia© 1992 Tony Horowitz285 pages So your wife is on extended assignment in Cairo, and you’re a freelance journalist without a regular gig. What do you do? Why not wander around northern … Continue reading
The Big Necessity
The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters © 2008, 2014 Rose George 238 pages In its initial publication, The Big Necessity may have been an eye-opening look into how many human beings still suffer … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, China, cities, health/wellness, India, NYC, Rose George, waste
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Oil on the Brain
Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Journey to Your Tank © 2007 Lisa Magonelli 336 pages Every moment, oil is surging up wells, being chemically sorted in vast refineries, sloshing its way across continents in pipelines, and being dispersed … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, China, commerce, goods/services, Middle East, Near East, occupational account, on the job, Persia, Persia-Iran, resources, South America
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The Foxes of the Desert
The Foxes of the Desert© 1960 Paul Carell370 pages When Erwin Rommel was dispatched to Africa to rescue his nation’s ailing ally against the small-but-feisty English Eighth Army, he earned the lasting respect and dread of those commanders tasked with … Continue reading
War, spam, and more war
Today I finished Spam Nation, a journalistic takedown of the spam industry which is centered in Russia. The book is a strange collection of memoir and journalism on criminal relationships so entangled that I felt like I was reading about … Continue reading
The Egyptians
The Egyptians© 1997 Barbara Watterson368 pages “We stand where Caesar and Napoleon stood, and remember that fifty centuries look down upon us; where the Father of History came four hundred years before Caesar, and heard the tales that were to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Africa, ancient world, classical world, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, Egypt, history, Islam, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East, survey
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Engines of War
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways368 pages© 2010 Christian Wolmar An army marches on its stomach, but for a hundred years it rode to victory only on the rails. It was Napoleon who observed … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Africa, American Civil War, Germany, Middle East, military, Near East, Russia, The Great War, trains, transportation
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An Ice Cream War
An Ice Cream War© 1982 William Boyd408 pages Although most of the action of the Great War took place in Europe, it spread throughout the world wherever Europe’s nations had allies or colonies. An Ice Cream War is a novel … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Africa, historical fiction, military, The Great War
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