Category: Book Review Monday

…including all the times Davy blows up at Michael Faraday, not to mention all the times he blows up his lab.

  “Romantic science can be dated roughly, and certainly symbolically, between two celebrated voyages of exploration…” As in Captain Cook’s first expedition, begun in 1768, and Charles Darwin’s voyage begun in 1831. “This is the time I have called the Age of Wonder,” Richard Holmes writes in his book of the same name, “and with…

Read more …including all the times Davy blows up at Michael Faraday, not to mention all the times he blows up his lab.

No matter how minute the detail (three leaky tubes of adhesive) it always goes somewhere (the disabling of an enemy ship and the complete rout of an entire barbarian horde).

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Read more No matter how minute the detail (three leaky tubes of adhesive) it always goes somewhere (the disabling of an enemy ship and the complete rout of an entire barbarian horde).

A couple of twenty-something Brits go walkabout in Darien on the border between Panama and Columbia and get kidnapped by guerrillas for ransom.

(Click through the image to read the review in full.) Read more of my Goodreads reviews here. The 22nd Kate Shugak novel, coming January 9, 2020. Click here to pre-order a signed copy of the hardcover edition.

Read more A couple of twenty-something Brits go walkabout in Darien on the border between Panama and Columbia and get kidnapped by guerrillas for ransom.