I’ve long been an admirer of Peter Matthiessen although I find his books to be semi-dense reads.(The lone exception is The Snow Leopard, one of my top ten books.) This isn’t a bad thing because what you learn from his …
Read: The Last Ride of the Pony Express
Everyone seems to think I read a lot, but in my estimation I’m not that uncommon. I just choose to read while others choose to watch TV, surf the web or sit around doing terrible things to their dog with …
Read: The River at the Center of the World
It’s somewhat unfair to the authors of the books that follow Simon Winchester. There are travel/adventure writers and there are serious travel/adventure writers. He’s the latter. Great story, great detail but reads so effortlessly. Winchester’s “The River at the Center …
