Book News and Recommendations
Jul. 8th, 2005 06:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThe name of the book is Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond. I somehow totally overlooked including the title when I made the post. :-) Here's the Amazon entry. Thanks to Cardigirl for noticing my ommission (my wife caught it later).
Heck of a book which I admit to not having finished yet, the author discusses why some cultures flourish when others do not. Well, now it's going to be a series on PBS! This is an interview with the author, Jared Diamond. He’s a heck of a researcher and has a number of other books that I’d love to check out.
Another recommendation is Gavin Menzies’ 1421: The Year China Discovered America, again, a book that I’ve started but not yet finished as I can’t find it at the moment.
And Magic Rat also recommended a book called Salt by Mark Kurlansky. Yet another that I want to read one of these days.
Heck of a book which I admit to not having finished yet, the author discusses why some cultures flourish when others do not. Well, now it's going to be a series on PBS! This is an interview with the author, Jared Diamond. He’s a heck of a researcher and has a number of other books that I’d love to check out.
Another recommendation is Gavin Menzies’ 1421: The Year China Discovered America, again, a book that I’ve started but not yet finished as I can’t find it at the moment.
And Magic Rat also recommended a book called Salt by Mark Kurlansky. Yet another that I want to read one of these days.
