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115 reviews

Lost in Laos by Lydia Laube

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informative

3.75

Good preparation for a trip to Laos.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

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informative slow-paced

4.0

It’s a tome. But shows here is more to hopeful about the world than not.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

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informative medium-paced

2.0

It was Jung’s usual perfectly researched self.
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

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informative fast-paced

5.0

I feel guilty saying this was a fun read in the most gruesome of topics.
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin

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informative

4.0

Well and authentically written. Contextualises so much in America today.
In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency by Ian Gardiner

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adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

A corner of history that looked massive but I did not know. An earthy telling by someone there.
Syria: The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell

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adventurous slow-paced

2.0

Amazing Archaeologist and we should all know Bell.