Advantages: informative, well reported historical facts and interesting encounters with locals Disadvantages: too much personal life of the journalist in the book (not inherent to the context)
Russia (A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People) is a report about a journey through Russia, by a distinguished broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby.
The journey starts in Murmansk, in the Article Circle and ends in Vladivostock, in the Far ...
Advantages: Funny and well written Disadvantages: Too much of a good thing
It was that time of year again. Husband's birthday. Over the years, of which there have now been many, we have settled into a pattern of present buying. He buys me something nice to wear because he claims, rightly, that I have no taste when it comes to ...
Advantages: Cracking good read! Disadvantages: The book ended...i wanted more!
...'Narrow Dog to Carcasonne' by Terry Darlington. I was loaned this book by one of my marina mooring neighbours. We live part of the year on a narrow boat and love the life, I enjoy boating and all that it entails and when at home occasionally ...
Advantages: Makes you want to do the trip yourself Disadvantages: Puts you off ever doing the trip yourself
...My choice this month is a work of non fiction and it represents a complete change of tone; it is an hilarious account of a completely hairbrained attempt by a couple of pensioners to navigate a narrow boat from Stoke in Staffordshire through the canals of ...
Advantages: A great story, very well told Disadvantages: It ended!
This is the tale of Jim, who is a whippet. And his two companions (the humans who mistakenly believe that they own him) Terry and Monica Darlington. And their "brave" decision, on retiring, to take a canal narrowboat the Phyllis May, all the way from Staf ...
