Outposts (Audio) - Simon Winchester • BookLikes (ISBN:0060845562)

Outposts (Audio)

by: Simon Winchester (author)

Format: audiobook

ISBN: 9780060845568 (0060845562)

Publish date: April 26th 2005

Publisher: HarperAudio

Edition language: English

Category:

Adventure, Non Fiction, Travel, Writing, Essays, History, Language, European Literature, British Literature

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nouveau rated it

12 years ago

http://nouveau.booklikes.com nouveau 4.0 Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

text Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Simon Winchester, b. 1944 London, M.A., Oxford (Geology) 1966, geological exploration Uganda 1967, changes career to journalism 1968, the Guardian, covers the Troubles incl. Bloody Sunday, Watergate, 80s and 90s travel books, mostly Asian, switches to book-writing full-time.1998 (age 54), first brea...

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joshmunn rated it

13 years ago

http://joshmunn.booklikes.com joshmunn 3.0 Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

text Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

Good idea, but done rather better by Harry Ritchie, I thought.

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13 years ago

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text Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

I never thought I would say this about a book written by Simon Winchester, but it's boring. His pompousness (what's with former British colonies being "better" than their French/Dutch/Italian counterparts) I can take, but after reading a full sentence filled with names of obscure places that I don't...

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