What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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--a necessary element for sure
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Looked this one up on my council library and Brisbane City Council library and all copies are out. Popular book.macdoc wrote:so should this be - it is a wonderful gripping novel ...excellent, will be on the classroom bookshelves for my kids this year.
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Arkady Martine is very much in the Herbert vein. Taught and breathless political thrillers ranging across an expansively imagined Empire.
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A guy wrote a book 1493. It's pretty good. Then another guy wrote a book 1492. I have it. What to do? Compare and contrast?
Then, the 1493 guy had already written 1491. It's before Columbus gets here. I dunno. Read it for completeness?
Then, the 1493 guy had already written 1491. It's before Columbus gets here. I dunno. Read it for completeness?
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Just skip straight to 1450!
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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1450 China: China grows under Ming Dynasty, with capital at Beijing. Agriculture,
navigation, Confucianism, and art thrive. Chinese trading ships export tea,
silk, and porcelain to India, Africa, and Europe, with Guangzhou as a major
trading post.
1450 Europe Nothing but The printing press is developed.
1451 Isabella born
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile
navigation, Confucianism, and art thrive. Chinese trading ships export tea,
silk, and porcelain to India, Africa, and Europe, with Guangzhou as a major
trading post.
1450 Europe Nothing but The printing press is developed.
1451 Isabella born
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile
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After reading The Aviators figured I'd go to the source.
What fantastic almost mythical human and an astonishingly skilled pilot.
The book is lyrical. How he actually accomplished that solo flight is an incredible feat of endurance fighting sleep and weather. Good read ....so was The Aviators.
Have just enough piloting in my life to appreciate that aspect.
My favorite sailplane and was thrilled to see it in the Smithsonian.
What fantastic almost mythical human and an astonishingly skilled pilot.
The book is lyrical. How he actually accomplished that solo flight is an incredible feat of endurance fighting sleep and weather. Good read ....so was The Aviators.
Have just enough piloting in my life to appreciate that aspect.
My favorite sailplane and was thrilled to see it in the Smithsonian.
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write what you know....while the 60s and 70s feel remote for us in the first world tho alive and well in my brain ....this is a reminder of the gigantic changes in China.
Good read.
now on to ancient China
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Amazing what that treasure fleet acomplished ...learned a lot. Apparently even touched on N Australia, plus east Africa and part way up the Red Sea and the scale of the fleet and size of the ships...mind bending...
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The man can write. Very engaged. Thanks to whoever recommended him √
Incredibly, the largest ships in the fleet (called "baoshan," or "treasure ships") were likely between 440 and 538 feet long by 210 feet wide. The 4-decked baoshan had an estimated displacement of 20-30,000 tons, roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the displacement of modern American aircraft carriers. Each had nine masts on its deck, rigged with square sails that could be adjusted in series to maximize efficiency in different wind conditions.
The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of an amazing 62 or 63 such ships for Zheng He's first voyage, in 1405. Extant records show that another 48 were ordered in 1408, plus 41 more in 1419, along with 185 smaller ships throughout that time.
The largest of the junks were said to be over 400 feet long and 150 feet wide. (The Santa Maria, Columbus's largest ship, was a mere 90 by 30 feet and his crew numbered only 90.) Loaded with Chinese silk, porcelain, and lacquerware, the junks visited ports around the Indian Ocean.
we might have had a very different world ....The other reason was that Zheng He traveled with an estimated 27,000 to 28,000 sailors, marines, translators and other crew members. Along with their horses, rice, drinking water, and trade goods, that number of people required a staggering amount of room aboard the ship. In addition, they had to make space for the emissaries, tribute goods and wild animals that went back to China.
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The man can write. Very engaged. Thanks to whoever recommended him √
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Uh no ...Japanese set in the 60s in Japan and no porn - very little sex but very evocative writing I like.
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Ed Yong’s “An Immense World”, about the senses of different animals and shit. Umwelt and all that caper. What does it taste like to be a bat? Very good.
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