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- The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24 (2)
- By Gardner Dozois
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- Landfalls (1)
- On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah
- By Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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- First Footsteps in East Africa (4)
- Or, an Exploration of Harar
- By Richard F. Burton
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Lo sto leggendo su Google Books, un'edizione del 1896 o giu' di li.
Non ne fanno piu', come Burton. Il quale gia' ai suoi tempi era speciale: esploratore, letterato, avventuriero, erudito, femminaro - fra marinai adeni, pastori somali, sceicchi harari, pulci a non finire, e cammelli of course. - — Apr 12, 2011 | Add your feedback
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- Warrior's Apprentice (42)
- By Lois McMaster Bujold
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Space Opera!
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Pensavo che fosse passata di moda da molti anni, ma chiaramente ci sono eccezioni. Ms Bujold inventa bene e scrive pure bene, i personaggi sono reali e spesso tormentati...
...Pare che ci sia una serie intera ambientata nello stesso universo di questo libro. Il Kindle Store e' solo a pochi click di ... (continue)
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- The Graveyard Book - Children's Edition (588)
- ePub eBook edition
- By Neil Gaiman
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...questa e' una storia carina, e non solo per children. Gaiman e' di casa nel cimitero, pare.
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- American Gods (1147)
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This could be Zelazny -
There is more than a little Roger Zelazny - themes and inspiration - in this book. The difference is that Gaiman goes where Zelazny never did - in the mythology of America. And where there isn't one, he makes one up. It's a good story from many points of view. No wonder NG won so many prizes with th ... (continue)
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- The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23 (7)
- By Gardner Dozois
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- In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (116)
- By Alexander McCall Smith
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- The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom (35)
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- The Best of 2002 (Science Fiction: The Best of ...)
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- To Jerusalem and Back (10)
- A Personal Account
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Per capire le schifezze che l'industria alimentare ci propina ogni giorno. Ed evitarle.
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- A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 (1)
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Landfalls
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This is my first ebook - I've read it between the leather covers protecting a brand-new Kindle over last week, while moving from London to Rwanda, where I am going to be awhile. But forget the medium, and never mind the place.
The arabist Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travel trilogy on the foo ... (continue)
This is my first ebook - I've read it between the leather covers protecting a brand-new Kindle over last week, while moving from London to Rwanda, where I am going to be awhile. But forget the medium, and never mind the place.
The arabist Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travel trilogy on the footsteps of the great Moroccan traveler Ibn Battutah, and what he began - in his calculations - twenty-five years ago as a travel book has grown - with him I would say - into something better. There's poetry in this third book, and I don't mean only the quotations. There is philosophy - of the kind reflected on the wings of verse and prose, and there is TMS's usual English wit. And much more.
I don't know about you, but any other travel book I might come across for the rest of my life will have a seriously hard time to compete with TMS trilogy.
In my own small way I've followed TMS following IB for some time now. When I got hold of the first book of the trilogy ('Travels with a Tangerine') - in an airport bookshop, I confess - I was living in Ethiopia, preparing to move back to Europe after years in that country. The second installment, 'The hall of a thousand columns' found me living and working between China and India. And now this one, which I have delayed purchasing as I was away in Italy when it was published in the UK, and it is now - in its digital form - the only company I yet have in Kigali, Rwanda.
I am tempted to quote the book myself - TMS quoting Ibn al-Khatib, quoting...
We two are strangers here
And strangers are one another kin.
Could one be kin to a book? Perhaps one can.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith: don't stop writing. Grazie, and good luck to you.
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