In a Sunburned Country396 reviews Bill Bryson Broadway, 2001 Road Trip + Laugh til you cry + Frühstück mit Kängurus .... + Good Ol' Aussie Sense Of Hunor + Good Laughs             The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell21 reviews Mark Kurlansky Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Can't beat it. + Shuck this oyster for a good treat History, History, History. And we continue to live it. Know our past control our future.             The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)63 reviews John Kelly Harper Perennial, 2006 Vivid, Brilliant, Alive + The Great Mortality...the plague of 1348 + Illuminating + This book should be on every college syllabus in North America and Europe             Night (Oprah's Book Club)618 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Simple, thought provoking + Very moving, impactful, horrific...... + Great book + Words Can Not Describe..... + Horrific and spellbinding             The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery12 reviews Wendy Moore Broadway, 2006 An unexpected page-turner + Surgery In The Age of Samuel Johnson (from Ahadada Books) + a dazzling portrait of an Enlightenment genius + a history of surgery, rationality and thought             The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America279 reviews Bill Bryson Harper Perennial, 1990 The Lost Bryson Actually, 3.4 stars. I am always up for a good American road trip book and I have very much enjoyed Bill Bryson's other books. What I got was early Bryson before he found his heart and an America that was beginning to go to seed on its own indifferent overindulgences. If you have not read ...             The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest258 reviews Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998 Must read this together with Into Thin Air + Makes Into Thin Air seem very questionable + A good report on some excellent reportage After i read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, i thought i knew all there was to know about the 1996 Everest tragedy. Was i wrong. In Jon's book, Toli (Anatoli) was cast as a villian who knowingly put his clients at risks. After reading this book, i felt that Toli was the real hero in the tragedy. ...             Salt: A World History100 reviews Mark Kurlansky Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 Salt Crystal Lamps from The Black Tai Salt Company + Salt to Taste + SALT - A WORLD HISTORY + Great read, couldn't put it down             The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea893 reviews Sebastian Junger Amazon Remainders Account, 1999 But you already saw the movie... + The Storm Of The Century and the people caught up in it. An education + a facinating read + A Masterpiece             Hungry Ocean, The: A Swordboat Captain's Journey4 reviews Linda Greenlaw Hyperion, 2006 this is commercial fishing and these are the fisherman + Wonderful writer + Something to tie you over + The ones that got away             Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (World As Home, The)37 reviews Janisse Ray Milkweed Editions, 2000 Musings on our many environments from a kindred spirit + Ecology of a Cracker Childhood + Thoughts from a Transplanted Cracker + LITERATE LOOK AT A TIME-WARP CHILDHOOD             Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare33 reviews Stephen Greenblatt W. W. Norton, 2005 What You Will + A slew of theories + Renewed my Love of the Bard + William Shakespeare Biography             The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day72 reviews Cornelius Ryan Simon & Schuster, 1994 It Started Two Genres + The best book on D-Day + This book will always remain one of the best descriptions of D-Day + Still the Best + great             Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World113 reviews Mark Kurlansky Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World + cod: a well written history + Cod this book be any better? + Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World + Al Gore should read this.             My Family and Other Animals28 reviews Gerald Durrell Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 Gerald Durell is wonderful! + Quite Excellent + Absolutely side-splitting + My family and other animals + Laugh out loud             A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail59 reviews Bill Bryson Anchor, 2006 A MUST for any past, present or future hiker + Good but loses steam + Very interesting book - some off color language scattered throughout though. + Probably Bryson's Best Book + 5 Stars for Part 1 & 3 1/2 Stars for Part 2             The Mother Tongue120 reviews Bill Bryson Harper Perennial, 1991 Amazing! + A tribute to the English language + Chuckle-worthy and interesting as well... + candy for English nerds             The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation78 reviews Mark Kurlansky Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 A fabulous book about a fabulously interesting culture + a beautiful book about a beautiful country + Delightful Account of a Unique Culture + Reading in situ at the Guggenheim, Bilbao             Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences27 reviews Kitty Burns Florey Harvest Books, 2007 Fun, satisfying AND good for you!! + Softcore Grammar + A Fun and Easy Read It never occurred to me that a book on sentence diagramming could be an interesting read, but Florey, a copy editor, is not only a terrific writer and charmingly cranky, but she knows her stuff. It's a coffee table or novelty book, something you might find at Urban Outfitters, and has more in ...             Nicholas and Alexandra105 reviews Robert K. Massie Ballantine Books, 2000 best book on royal couple + Among my Top 20 Books + Wonderful biography of the last of the Romanov dynasty + Suicide of a Dynasty + Nicholas and Alexandra