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Marco Polo, actually started a while ago but became distracted by another book (there are so many)
Lake District, Mountain Landscape, by Alastair Lee - got it for my birthday and it's amazing. Some photos of the Lake District that are nicer than any I've ever seen.
Just reading: 'What I talk about when I talk about running' by Haruki Murakami. Charity shop find.
I have read about 5 of Murakami's novels in the past and really enjoyed them. Never knew he was into his running though as I found out starting this book.
Interesting book so far and interesting if you have read any of his novels.
I've read it. Got it as a Christmas present a few years ago
Me too. Also got given a book called The Philosophy of Running which is full of essays into why people run. Fascinating.
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Readng....The Places In Between by Rory Stewart. Stewart walks through the Afghan winter following the U.S invasion. He follows the route that Mogal Emperor Babur took. A fascinating read and how the guy got through without getting a bullet through the back of his head only he will know.
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Good choice, cracking book done by a cracking bloke. And Kayti is a first rate photographer. Not everyone can ride one of his frames but you can get his book. Get in in your xmas stockings!
Just started this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Seven...4569225&sr=8-4
Anyone else read it?
started Run Wild. so far enjoying it. Lovely tale about his schoolboy adventures at the beginning got me thinking about my own adventures and how I feel that way now when I'm off out with map and compass exploring places I havnt visited before. :)
Just bought The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer, a classic account of the ascent of the eiger from Needle Sports in Keswick today.
Tis a great read that mark, thoroughly enjoyed it. A classic of the genre.
Read Chrissie Wellington's book. Really good.
To be honest, I wouldn't start from there...Quote:
Originally Posted by markmc
Got that for Christmas last year, excellent (and a bit frightening) book.Quote:
Originally Posted by markmc
This year's Christmas gift books are the new Bradley Wiggins one, a Star Wars origami manual (hugely hard!) and Gok Wan's Chinese cookbook.
[QUOTE=PaulE;518656]Got that for Christmas last year, excellent (and a bit frightening) book.Quote:
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Cheers Guys just read the introduction and first chapter last night looks good already
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1635605
Excellent :thumbup:
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, so far very good, downloaded to the Kindle I inherited from my youngest the Jury is out on the Kindle, handy but its not a book!!!, got the Bradley Wiggins book when I've finished this (the old skool paper version)
War Of The Worlds, freebie ebook.
Treasure island, probably should have read this as a nipper.
Another freebie
harvest home, the story of the great floods of 1947
not much else to do in norfolk
In Search of Robert Millar, halfway through, takes me back to when I used to believe cycling, a great read so far, saw Millar at a Kelloggs city centre in Manchester 1986, brilliant, bought a set of Modolo Equipe brakes & a Cinelli 1A black stem from Harry Halls the same day, happy days :thumbup:
Robert Millars "assistant" used to send faxes from my dad's factory. True story.
Reading Nansen by Roland Huntford and thoroughly enjoying it.
Just started The Running Man by Gilbert Tuhabonye. I think it's going to be an excellent read.
Just finished reading Adventures in mind by Heather Dawe.
It's an easy and unpretentious read, I found it thoroughly enjoyable.
Just finished Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving .... now picked up A History of loneliness by John Boyne. Both about redemption in some way. Languishing with a cold has some benefits !
it's been on my "To Read" list for ages, but inspired by last night's "Secret Life Of Books" I have started reading the Mabinogion
(you can download it free off gutenberg.org)
Runner, by Lizzy Hawker.
What's not to like?
Except that I can't stop reading it and I'm supposed to be doing the Hoovering.
Highly recommended.
Does language determine concepts/culture, or is it the other way around? Is language itself genetic, or are we just "clever"? Is there a universal grammar? Would a visitor from Mars think we all spoke the same language, just in different dialects?
I got into this looking at a Future Learn course on English teaching/speaking. Lots of new ideas and concepts - as usual we do not know what we do not know.
Have a look at "Don't sleep there are snakes" by a linguist/anthropologist who stayed with a tribe in the Amazon to try to learn their language so he could translate the bible into that language - a much better read than it sounds - and it is not at all religious - quite the opposite in fact. How the tribe lives and how this is reflected in their language is absolutely fascinating. It changed my ideas about "Western Culture".