Jäsen: Adobe

Kirjasto154 kirjaa — katso kirjasto

Arvostelut27 arvostelua — katso arvostelut

Pilvetavainsanapilvi, tekijäpilvi

Avainsanatunread (113), academia (76), read (25), north america (16), off-site (15), south america (13), central america (11), conquistadors (9) — kaikki avainsanat

Ryhmät50 Book Challenge, Baker Street and Beyond, BookMooching, Commodity Histories & Micro-Histories, Gardening, Literatura en Espanol, Travel and Exploration literature

LempikirjailijatJ. M. Machado de Assis, Robertson Davies, George Eliot, Gordon Korman, Tanith Lee, Hilary Mantel, Henry David Thoreau, E. B. White (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta 2008 Book Review Haiku

But it has fallen to my lot, working on this subject, to have read some of the most tiresome historical literature in existence. Young men seeking academic promotion, old men seeking publicity, neither one nor the other knowing the subject in depth, only a particular voyage or a particular map, write worthless articles, and the so-called learned journals are altogether too hospitable to these effusions.
--Samuel Eliot Morison

...they were examining every minor passage of his life, deciding whether he should be considered a supreme hero--as his panegyrists believed-- or an ordinary human being, subject to all the weaknesses of his condition, which is how he was portrayed by certain rationalist historians, who were, perhaps, incapable of perceiving the poetry of his actions from behind their walls of papers, files, and chronicles.
--Alejo Carpentier, The Harp and the Shadow (trans. Thomas and Carol Christensen)

When Columbus returned to Spain with the news of his discovery, everybody became very excited and decided to have an Age of Exploration. Immediately, a great many bold adventurers--Magellan, da Gama, de Soto, Chrysler, Picasso, and others--set forth on Voyages of Discovery, only to have their ships bang into each other and sink at the harbor entrance.
--Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here

Tietoja kirjastostani I use this account for two purposes: keeping track of the unread books in my general collection and organizing my nerdy academic texts. I'm trying to reduce the number of the former and increase the volume of the latter. Wish me luck.

Finished, non-academic books are either carefully cherished, cycled through BookMooch, or banished to the local used-book shop.

Kotisivuhttp://www.bookmooch.com/m/bio/adobe

Mukana myösBookMooch

SijaintiNear the Gulf of Mexico

Käyttäjätilin tyyppijulkinen, maksettu

YhteysuutisetYhteysuutiset

URL:t http://www.librarything.com/profile/Adobe (profiili)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Adobe (kirjasto)

RekisteröitymispäiväSep 3, 2006