What are we reading?

[bbmike]

It's going to be interesting to see how they do it. I hope it doesn't get Jar Jar'd.

[bob48]

Thank you, BC. I just picked that up for my Kindle for £0.99

Which one, Bob?

I'm fairly excited over the Northern Operations book. I always wanted to learn something more in-depth about German operations there beyond the Norway campaign and especially surrounding the Murmansk offensives.

The one about the Orne and Pegasus bridges.

Proving to be a very interesting read so far.

[Gusington]

About to begin The Faded Map: Lost Kingdoms of Scotland by Alistair Moffett.

[BanzaiCat]

Whoa, thanks for that one, Gus. Sounds like something to read before the next trip over there!

[Gusington]

Actually I have to thank you. With your late night conversatin', I was able to choose this era over WWI, for now.

Have you read any Alistair Moffett? He is a legend in the UK, especially Scotland. I've read a few books by him and picked up a couple of more when I was on the Isle of Sky.

[BanzaiCat]

I've not, though I've just tried for the last several minutes to find a book I have on my Kindle about a history of Scotland. The dude goes into the VERY distant past, describing the Earth forming and the plates that formed northwestern Europe, going into migration to England, how it was connected to mainland Europe via Doggerland, and then into the history of Scotland. It's not showing up in my Kindle library on my PC.

I think it's this one, though. I haven't tried to read it since I last went in May.

[Gusington]

Haven't heard of that one. Tectonics is a little too far back for me :)

[BanzaiCat]

I thought the same, but it's actually rather interesting. Instead of choosing an arbitrary point in time and declaring that to be the start of the history of Scotland, he instead decides to ratchet the clock back a ways and start from scratch. I didn't finish the book but he's very entertaining in his description, so it's not some boring treatise on plate tectonics. At least, I didn't think so. It actually sets the stage well and shows you how society on the British Isles started the way they did.

And it was the first time I learned about Doggerland, too, which I found fascinating.

[Gusington]

'I didn't finish the book.'

😎

20 pages in to The Faded Map and it starts with a Greek explorer's charting of almost the entire British coastline, circa 320 BC!

😳

[MetalDog]

320 BC?  I had no idea.

[Staggerwing]

320 BC?  I had no idea.

That was Pytheas of Massalia. There is even a chance that he passed Iceland on his circumnavigation of the British Isles.

If you get the chance, read "The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek" by none other than Barry Cunliffe.

[MetalDog]

Thanks, Stagger!

[Gusington]

^That's him. You guys should pick up The Faded Map, you would love it.

[mirth]

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden

[Gusington]

I could read a menu written by Mark Bowden and be happy.