from ChiaraBeth

I'll be honest with you...I haven't finished this one yet. I just kept falling asleep whenever I tucked myself into bed to read! But that's my only complaint about the book: it's not good bedtime reading unless you suffer from insomnia. The content is great and simply, yet engagingly, explained. ...

from ksmyth

This is such a fun book. It isn't dry as the title might imply, and is, in my view, the best of Kenneth C. Davis's books

from ChiaraBeth

I'll be honest with you...I haven't finished this one yet. I just kept falling asleep whenever I tucked myself into bed to read! But that's my only complaint about the book: it's not good bedtime reading unless you suffer from insomnia. The content is great and simply, yet engagingly, explained. ...

from melydia

This was just the book I was looking for. Geography is a science not just of place names and boundaries, but of politics and culture and environment and history. I learned tons about exploration and wars and colonization and weather and climate and more, all in bite-sized chunks that somehow mana...

from skinglist

Well that start date is kind of untrue. When I got this from the library I realized it was at 20% already and via LT I realized I'd started and abandoned this in 2015. I nearly did the same in 2016. While either the e-book format and/or his update have addressed the factual errors mentioned in pr...