Clearly it hasn't.That book has got 'ME' written all over it. Definitely one for the list.
But if you can wait a week or two - and ping me your addy I will send it over. Because I'm nice like that.
Clearly it hasn't.That book has got 'ME' written all over it. Definitely one for the list.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown.
I knew that the colonisation of North America by we Europeans, eventually called Manifest Destiny, wasn't a bright moment in our history. But I am stunned by the brutality of it: mass killings, genocide; stuff that would be considered War Crimes these days.
The sad thing is that this sort of behaviour is still going on in various places on our planet 150 or more years later. This is the 21st Century and I don't think that we have grown up at all. Or learnt much.
Indeed - and can be applied to many native tribes & people on many many continents.The truth is that the brutality went both ways and, even before the arrival of Europeans, between different tribes. Some of the most brutal massacres were between different tribes vying to be the main suppliers to the European fur trade.
Just finished the last book, well worth it, I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants a bit of a wild west adventure.I'm afraid I get rare an opportunity to read nowadays but I'm rattling through audiobooks on my commute.
I've just started the last in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
Part of me didn't want to start the last book because then the adventure would be over.
Bought that Entymologicon book today.
I'm looking forward to starting it.
I see he's written another on old and disused words and I thought to myself, 'I'll read that next.'
And now I'm home and kicking myself that I didn't buy it at the same time.
Doh!
Probably still my favourite book series, along with the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde.I'm afraid I get rare an opportunity to read nowadays but I'm rattling through audiobooks on my commute.
I've just started the last in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
Part of me didn't want to start the last book because then the adventure would be over.