Evelyn Waugh's When the Going was Good is an interesting account of his travels in the 1930s, going to Haile Selassie's coronation among other trips.
Waugh's such a formidable writer.
Waugh's such a formidable writer.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve never read any of his stuff. Somewhat related, Ryszard Kapuscinski‘s The Emperor on Selassie’s last days is an interesting read, but probably not among my very favorites.Evelyn Waugh's When the Going was Good is an interesting account of his travels in the 1930s, going to Haile Selassie's coronation among other trips.
Waugh's such a formidable writer.
Cheers. I know next to zero about Selassie. The coronation has a random bunch of journos covering it, not quite sure why they're there and making any old crap up to wire back to the office.Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve never read any of his stuff. Somewhat related, Ryszard Kapuscinski‘s The Emperor on Selassie’s last days is an interesting read, but probably not among my very favorites.
Totally agree.I've always preferred non-fiction over fiction. Reality is just more interesting to me.
Finished that the other month, engrossing read.Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
A book about the disappearing of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 abducted from her home in Belfast in 1972, the IRA and Troubles more generally, and investigation into who was involved. It was so good that I was disappointed when it suddenly ended despite there being 35% left in the Kindle version. I'd forgotten about the citations and notes.
I picked it up after listening to his podcast Wind of Change, which was also fascinating, about whether the CIA wrote the Scorpions' hit song "Wind of Change" during the collapse of the Soviet Union.Finished that the other month, engrossing read.
That's actually my next read. Sounds great.Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
A book about the disappearing of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 abducted from her home in Belfast in 1972, the IRA and Troubles more generally, and investigation into who was involved. It was so good that I was disappointed when it suddenly ended despite there being 35% left in the Kindle version. I'd forgotten about the citations and notes.
This is partly because, despite much seeming and some very real progress, public discourse about racism is still as childish and supine as it ever was. Where we do discuss race in public, we have been trained to see racism – if we see it at all – as an issue of interpersonal morality. Good people are not racist, only bad people are. This neat binary is a great way of avoiding any real discussion at all. But without the structural violence of unequal treatment before the law and in education, and a history of racial exploitation by states, simple acts of personal prejudice would have significantly less meaning. In short, we are trained to recognise the kinds of racism that tend to be engaged in by poorer people. Thus even the most pro-empire of historians would probably admit that some football hooligan calling a Premier League player a ‘black cnut’ is a bad thing, even while they spend their entire academic careers explaining away, downplaying and essentially cheering for the mass-murdering white-supremacist piracy of the British Empire, which starved millions to death in India, enslaved and tortured millions more in countless locations and often used its power to crush, not enhance, popular democracy and economic development in its non-white colonies, especially when doing so suited larger aims. Poor people racism, bad, rich people racism, good.
Ah it’s just fecking brilliant, everyone should read this book:I’m gonna do through The Corner again next
Only thing I can think of is this by an old teacher of mine, I read it years ago and can’t remember much about it but it may be of interest to your brother -https://books.google.ie/books?id=zwjGz-vMk9kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ottoman+medicine&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ottoman medicine&f=falseCan some of you recommend any good books on medical history and the like? I'm thinking of getting my brother something like that for Christmas. I'm not talking university textbooks but medical stuff that could be interesting for anyone.
You could get him the biography or works of Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna)? He's the pioneer of modern medicine. Had a really interesting life.Can some of you recommend any good books on medical history and the like? I'm thinking of getting my brother something like that for Christmas. I'm not talking university textbooks but medical stuff that could be interesting for anyone.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-In...5dc87&pd_rd_wg=V2Rof&pd_rd_i=0500518106&psc=1Can some of you recommend any good books on medical history and the like? I'm thinking of getting my brother something like that for Christmas. I'm not talking university textbooks but medical stuff that could be interesting for anyone.
You could get him the biography or works of Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna)? He's the pioneer of modern medicine. Had a really interesting life.
Edit: This is a good one - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avicennas-...feb8c&pd_rd_wg=2jF4B&pd_rd_i=1594774323&psc=1
Cheers I'll have a look.
The opening page of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his famous account of the Arab Revolt of WW1:
There are passages which, it has been claimed, are more fiction than fact, but it’s such an engaging, atmospheric read that I’ve gone back to many times.