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The Seven Continents (Rookie Read-About Geography) 2 reviews
Wil Mara
Children's Press (CT), 2005
ValhallaTeacher
This book is one in an excellent series by Scholastic. It has beautiful pictures. The text is simple and printed in a large, clear font--perfect for a young reader. It is an excellent supplement to learning about our continents.
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa 25 reviews
Howard W. French
Vintage, 2005
Fantastic read
This masterfully written book is essentially a history of Africa from the eyes of an eyewitness to most of the major events that has shaped the country to the place that it is today.
Outstanding book!
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Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent
Firefly Books, 2008
The geology, ecology and biology of the "continent for peace and science." This comprehensive, fully illustrated and reader-friendly book honors the International Polar Year (2007-08) with a spectacular range of information on Antarctica and the Antarctic Islands, the world's harshest environment. Antarctica features up-to-date material from an expert team of scientists, expeditioners and historians. Included are more than 600 ...
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Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars: 1689-1763 (The American Story)1 review
Betsy Maestro
HarperCollins, 2000
Excellent
History is a lot more fun when combined with the beautiful pictures and informative, easy-to-read text in this book. We have been able to use the entire series as the foundation for our elementary history curriculum combined with other activites. I highly recommend these books to others looking for an enjoyable way to study history together.
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The Last Continent (Discworld)101 reviews
Terry Pratchett
Corgi, 2006
Discworld
I've decided he's too good and too prolific for me to write a brand new review every single time I read one of his books. Discworld currently has 34 titles and every one of them will probably knock your socks off. His mind bubbles and flashes like a boiling pot of electric eels, and I simply can't get enough of his writing.
A reviewer has compared him to Geoffrey Chaucer. He reminds me more ...
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds11 reviews
Jonathan D. Spence
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
When A Chinese read this book in Chinese version...
It's great! Although some historic characters I want to see didn't show up, I still enjoy reading it. Seeing how western people though about our culture hundred of years ago makes me laugh. Maybe you westerns would laugh, too. If you know how we Chinese thought of you long time ago...
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America 287 reviews
Bill Bryson
Harper Perennial, 1990
Side-splittingly Funny!
I'd read four Bryson books before I read this one, and this is the funniest of the lot. Irreverence and biting wit on almost every page. I've definitely had more laughs from this book than any other I've ever read.
I can only assume that the people who are giving this riveting work a meager one star are the kind of people who are more than happy to laugh at Bryson poking fun at anyone else, ...
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God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis 3 reviews
Philip Jenkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Christianity and Islam in Europe today
This is the third in Jenkins' fascinating series looking at global Christianity and it follows "The Next Christendom" and "The New Faces Of Christianity" but this time focusing on Christianity in Europe and the perceived threat of Islam. Reading this book was an enjoyable experience and a welcome antidote to the paranoia often seen in the media and in churches, at least with regard to the future ...
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Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul8 reviews
Michael Reid
Yale University Press, 2008
An Indispensable Guide to the Latin America of the 21st Century
Mr. Reid, a writer for The Economist magazine, arguably the best magazine in the world, delivers us an extremely concise, well-written book on a region that America turned its back on after fostering democratic reforms in the 80's, but one which has now been cast to the forefront of world affairs due in large part to the huge commodities boom, the flood of investment into their capital markets, ...
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century20 reviews
Mark Mazower
Vintage, 2000
Read it at least twice
I agree with an earlier reviewer that this is the best history of 20th Century Europe ever. Keen insights and fresh ideas leap off every page.
But it needs to be repeated: the Dark Continent is not an introduction to the subject. Unless you have a good knowledge of Europe and its history, this is not yet the book for you. Someday maybe, but for now save your money.
Some found Mazower's ...
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Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans and Life5 reviews
Ron Redfern
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001
The Value of Redfern's Origins
I write on behalf of the curator of our C. Warren Irvin Jr Collection of Charles Darwin: "The book has two sections which are interposed: 1. the text is exceptionally well done, and the glossary is extremely valuable for those not completely famniliar with geology and the formation of continents, etc. 2. the photography is the best that I (the curator) has ever seen in a book of this type. It in ...
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The Shackled Continent10 reviews
Robert Guest
Pan Books, 2005
Sharp and entertaining analysis of Africa's problems
Why is Africa the only continent that has not seen economic growth in the last 40 years? It is all too easy to blame just AIDS and the legacy of colonialism for all the problems. In this razor-sharp analysis Robert Guest uses examples from his experience as a traveling journalist for The Economist to explain his view on Africa's problem. Sure, AIDS and other infectious diseases is one of them, ...
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North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Thomas F. McIlwraith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the ...
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The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography3 reviews
Martin W. Lewis, K?ren E. Wigen
University of California Press, 1997
better than Edward Said or Samuel Huntington
I'm surprised to be the first to review this book. It was recommended to me a couple of years ago by a professor and I've only now gotten around to reading it: it's definitely one of the best books I've read recently. As the title suggests, the book explores the myth of continents. The authors show the origin of the idea of the continent in ancient Greece and show its continued use ...
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Africans: The History of a Continent (African Studies)3 reviews
John Iliffe
Cambridge University Press, 2007
A history of Africa for the 21st century.
Iliffe's 'Africans' is the most distinguished and intelligent brief history of Africa yet written. Dry, and at times dense with information, it nonetheless succintly and brilliantly outlines the history of this complex and fascinating continent from earliest man to the democratic movements of the 1990s. Centred around a thesis that the key to Africa's history is population change, Iliffe ...
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Where Is My Continent? (First Step Nonfiction)
Robin Nelson
Lerner Publishing Group, 2001
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A Continent Of Islands: Searching For The Caribbean Destiny7 reviews
Mark Kurlansky
Da Capo Press, 1993
Engaging Overview
This is not your scholarly tome, an arid recitation of events and facts. For such a fascinating part of the world, the Caribbean has generated very few readable histories that keep a reader's interest. Kurlansky includes a modicum of facts, but the real power of this book is the sweep, and the themes that tie different islands and eras together. I would recommend this book without hesitation to ...
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Death in the Dark Continent19 reviews
Peter H. Capstick
St. Martin's Press, 1983
Not just for Hunters
Many other reviewers have characterized "Death in the Dark Continent" very, very well. It is a bit more graphic than Capstick's earlier "Death in the Long Grass", but not much.
But you definitely do NOT have to be a hunter to thoroughly enjoy Capstick. I think, though, there are a lot of non-hunters who simply haven't discovered how good Capstick really is at "grabbing you, making you sweat ...
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Africa for Kids: Exploring a Vibrant Continent, 19 Activities (For Kids series) 1 review
Harvey Croze
Chicago Review Press, 2006
Great for older students
I work at an African American History Museum, and I purchased this book to include in a traveling trunk that will go out to teachers of all grade levels. Unfortunately, I don't think many teachers will be able to use this book with their students. It's a fantastic resource for information, but is not exactly geared for "kids". It would be wonderful for high school students, as some of the ...
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Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South
Robert Goodwin
Harper, 2008
The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer?an African slave named Esteban Dorantes Crossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to Europe and America as Dr. Robert Goodwin chronicles the incredible adventures of the African slave Esteban Dorantes (1500-1539), the first pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American south and the first African-born man to die in North America about ...
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