Holiday reading is resuming after a hiatus. Protestants – The Radicals Who Made The Modern World by Alec Ryrie is a sweeping 500 page historical survey that seeks to demonstrate that understanding the modern world is impossible without understanding the Protestant movement. It also came highly recommended.
I’ve left Captain Cook floating around New Zealand (it’s okay, I already know where he’ll be arriving in a couple of weeks) to read Mitchell Johnson’s autobiography, Resilent. There is much to admire about Johnson’s effort to come back from being written off as an international cricketer, a comeback that represented personal growth as much …
From fiction to biography/memoir to history. Sea Of Dangers is subtitled Captain Cook And His Rivals. Geoffrey Blainey writes about James Cook and another mariner, Jean de Surville, and how their journeys of discovery nearly intersected. Looks interesting.
So, next holiday reading book is a biography, Ann Do’s The Happiest Refugee. He’s an engaging author, and his story is remarkable. Bookstore QBD have it for a great price.
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