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- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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In addition to Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures, there's another novel about Mary Anning: Curiosity by Joan Thomas. I haven't read either, but Curiosity is in the pile by my desk, and I do plan to get around to it one of these days.
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Pompeii
I read Robert Harris' Pompeii novel a few months after I got back from visiting Pompeii and was thrilled by it. He really painted a picture of life in the town before and during the disaster.
John Sliz
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- parthianbow
- Compulsive Reader
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- Joined: April 2009
- Location: Nr. Bristol, SW England
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@John: I agree. Pompeii is a great book.
I'm going to travel to Italy again soon - this time, to revisit the Cannae battlefield, before I write an account of it in my second Hannibal novel.
I'm going to travel to Italy again soon - this time, to revisit the Cannae battlefield, before I write an account of it in my second Hannibal novel.
Ben Kane
Bestselling author of Roman military fiction.
Spartacus - UK release 19 Jan. 2012. US release June 2012.
http://www.benkane.net
Twitter: @benkaneauthor
Bestselling author of Roman military fiction.
Spartacus - UK release 19 Jan. 2012. US release June 2012.
http://www.benkane.net
Twitter: @benkaneauthor
Yes, visiting a battlefield is very important before you write about it. I didn't realize how small the Oosterbeek (Arnhem) Perimeter was until I got there... or how large and exposed Omaha Beach was.
John Sliz
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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Oooh, I'm jealous. I would love to visit Pompeii.
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You won't believe how big Pompeii is. They have done a lot of work there over the years.
I was there with 63 high school students in 2003 and I think that everyone of them at least liked it, most loved it.
I was there with 63 high school students in 2003 and I think that everyone of them at least liked it, most loved it.
John Sliz
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
- Gabriele Campbell
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I hope I can save up for a Scotland trip in 2013.
And there's always the inland tours of a few days. Probably another one to Thuringia or Saxony-Anhalt since this years was so much fun.
And there's always the inland tours of a few days. Probably another one to Thuringia or Saxony-Anhalt since this years was so much fun.
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- DianeL
- Bibliophile
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[quote="":Sarita:""]I travelled to America (NYC) for the first time last week, and would like to go again next year, somewhere on the East Coast preferably - any suggestions? My friend would like to go to Florida but I'm not sure it's for me Perhaps Boston?[/quote]
Sarita, it depends what you want to do and see while you are Stateside. I'm from VA and have been up and down the coast; are you interested in beaches and a resort style vacation? Shopping for clothes or art or antiques? Historical sites (if so, what draws you; we may be young, but the East Coast is crammed with American history of every kind)? Will you be traveling with kids or family or just your friend? And how long will you have?
Sarita, it depends what you want to do and see while you are Stateside. I'm from VA and have been up and down the coast; are you interested in beaches and a resort style vacation? Shopping for clothes or art or antiques? Historical sites (if so, what draws you; we may be young, but the East Coast is crammed with American history of every kind)? Will you be traveling with kids or family or just your friend? And how long will you have?
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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