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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Review: Gavin Weightman, The Industrial Revolutionaries
As familiar as the outlines of the Industrial Revolution are, no one will be surprised to learn that every steam-powered invention has a murky history of rivalries, precedents, and counterclaims. However unsurprising it may be, it is still fun to … Continue reading
Review: Garry Wills, Martial’s Epigrams
Even to those who know Roman poetry, Martial is more often known than read. This may be attributed, as you like, to the lightness of his over 1,500 epigrams, their sheerly daunting number, their honest filthiness, or the dependence for … Continue reading
Review: Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 B.C.E.
The hominid fossil record begins some seven million years ago with species that are like humans but not human. But on what basis do we identify members of our own family and say that they are not merely humanlike but … Continue reading
Review: Speke’s Journal
John Hanning Speke’s career as an explorer began inauspiciously in 1855, when he and his commander, the swashbuckling Richard Burton, were nearly killed by marauders on the beaches of Somalia. Less than a decade later, and amidst a terrible public … Continue reading