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Alf Francis “Race Mechanic”
It’s an old school hardback (1957) that I found on my late fathers book shelves.
It’s a book that has stood the test of time if you are into old cars.
I enjoyed it a lot.
stirling moss’s mechanic during his early privateer years
It’s an old school hardback (1957) that I found on my late fathers book shelves.
It’s a book that has stood the test of time if you are into old cars.
I enjoyed it a lot.
stirling moss’s mechanic during his early privateer years
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Noah Gordon's "The Physician". Around the year 1000AD, an Anglo-Saxon boy in London sees the limitations of English medicine of the time, and makes his way across Europe and into Persia to study medicine under Avicenna.
You have a red itchy patch on your arm?
Anglo-Saxon (Leech Bok): rub your arm with fresh goat droppings mixed with sour wine.
Avicenna: wash your arm with hot water several times a day, keep it clean and exposed to the air, eat simple foods, let your body heal itself.
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You have a red itchy patch on your arm?
Anglo-Saxon (Leech Bok): rub your arm with fresh goat droppings mixed with sour wine.
Avicenna: wash your arm with hot water several times a day, keep it clean and exposed to the air, eat simple foods, let your body heal itself.
The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden…
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Works great for poison ivy too!
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Part way through "The Rising" about the leadup to and the 1916 Irish rebellion which led to those decades of "The troubles".
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I recommended this to someone just yesterday.
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For complete fiction escapism I went to wilbur smith.
a writer would loved Africa and based many of his books on the (fictionalised enough not to be sued) early colonisation
then he took a writing detour and did a saga on the early Egyptians all very macho stuff but I enjoyed the diversion from the real world.
a writer would loved Africa and based many of his books on the (fictionalised enough not to be sued) early colonisation
then he took a writing detour and did a saga on the early Egyptians all very macho stuff but I enjoyed the diversion from the real world.
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Be sure to also read Tom’s Nutmeg!
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At the moment, A Global History of Modern Historiography, by Georg Iggers, Edward Wang, and Supriya Mukherjee.
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I just got through reading "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak. I've heard about it most of my life because my mother came of age around the time the movie came out. She resembled Lara at that time, and told me how sad the story seemed and how haunting the musical soundtrack for the movie was.
One of my former co-workers was a naturalized US citizen of Russian birth. He thought it was interesting that I enjoyed collecting Soviet-era watches and cameras, and we used to talk about history and politics quite a bit. I told him I was planning to read that novel, and he told me that many native Russians struggled to understand it even if they were well educated because it has so many different characters. On top of that, they often interact in ways that can best be described as bizarre coincidences.
He was correct. It wasn't an easy read, and it seemed to start of a bit slow. I did complete it, and now I want to go back and read it again.
One of my former co-workers was a naturalized US citizen of Russian birth. He thought it was interesting that I enjoyed collecting Soviet-era watches and cameras, and we used to talk about history and politics quite a bit. I told him I was planning to read that novel, and he told me that many native Russians struggled to understand it even if they were well educated because it has so many different characters. On top of that, they often interact in ways that can best be described as bizarre coincidences.
He was correct. It wasn't an easy read, and it seemed to start of a bit slow. I did complete it, and now I want to go back and read it again.
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Thought the movie was great. Have not read the book. May have to put it on my bucket list.
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I had trouble paying attention to the movie. But read "War and Peace" with determination. Wasn't about to volunteer for Zhivago.
Strangely though, I ran through Ayn Rand's books like a voracious kid in a doughnut shop. Go figger.
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Loved Atlas Shrugged. They attempted to make a 3 part movie, but it didn't really work as a movie.