A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way » Stephen Dando Collins http://theludwigs.com Thu, 24 May 2012 03:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Books — In a Sunburned Country, Empires of the Sea, Tycoon's War, Suffer the Little Children http://theludwigs.com/2009/03/books-in-a-sunburned-country-empires-of-the-sea-tycoons-war-suffer-the-little-children/ http://theludwigs.com/2009/03/books-in-a-sunburned-country-empires-of-the-sea-tycoons-war-suffer-the-little-children/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:34:38 +0000 john http://theludwigs.com/?p=3404
  • In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. Humorous Australian travelogue. Easy breezy read.
  • Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley. More than you ever wanted to know about the battles for control of the Mediterranean in the 1500s between the Ottoman empire and the various Christian states. Brutal unforgiving warfare.
  • Tycoon’s War by Stephen Dando-Collins. The story of Vanderbilt’s machinations in Central America. Some of Vanderbilt sections are interesting, but the details on minor skirmishing in Central America put me to sleep.

    • And some fiction to cleanse the palate:

    • Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon. Great entry in a detective series set in Venice. No grand action sequences, just human foibles and painful results.
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