Ok. I cheated here and listened to the unabridged audio book. This is a deep reading and analysis of The Iliad as the first anti-war opus. It's assessment of Achilles, and indeed all the poem's cast, is thorough and considered. Alexander's translation of the death of Hector makes me wish she woul...
This is a very detailed analysis of the Trojan war in literature, questioning not whether it happened, but how accurate the background information in it is in comparison to more verifiable information from the time. It looks at artifacts, documents etc, and compares information in those to things...
If I ever own a boat the name will be: Bounty’s Launch.Alexander’s The Bounty is an excellent and thorough read about all that makes the Mutiny on The Bounty still intriguing today.On the morning of April 28, 1789 Lieutenant William Bligh’s H.M.S. Bounty was taken in the South Pacific, near Tahit...
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” said Henry David Thoreau when he read the galley proof of Walden and realized what kind of gonif editor he was faced with. Still, it did rather well. So has The Worst Journey, in spite of the fact the Natointal Geograhpic society ! has gotten ...