I really enjoyed this one. There is a lot of scientific and technical terminology that went over my head, but that is where reading this on my kindle worked better than reading the physical book, because I could use the dictionary feature. The first part of the book goes a little slow with all of th...
[bookcover:The Tiger Warrior|6261846] [book:The Tiger Warrior|6261846] by [author:David Gibbins|133505]about the author:Canadian-born underwater archaeologist and novelist. Gibbins learned to scuba dive at the age of 15 in Canada, and dived under ice, on shipwrecks and in caves while he was still at...
For the longest time my adventure shelf has primarily consisted of Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly, and James Rollins; with Will Adams, David Gibbins, Andy McDermott, and Paul Sussman patiently waiting their turn; and Alex Archer lurking on the next shelf, alongside all the Indiana Jones tie-in novels...
I gave up on this book after getting little further than halfway. It started very well, interesting, with a lot of things going on, but then the story dwindled down to lengthy conversations with lots of details about the lives of all characters. Also enormous amounts of information and background on...
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