bookshelves: autumn-2014, nonfiction, fraudio, france, bloat, arch, published-1989, history, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015 Read from September 02, 2014 to May 14, 2015 Elephant of the Bastille Arrogant and bloated style and in such detail that after a while one just wants to scream. 948 pages ...
Before this book I didn't know a Stuart from a Tudor, now I do. The author's philosophy is that history should be as fun to listen to as possible. He does that with ease with this volume. He really gets most interesting when he is delving completely into some event or person such as the Battle of Ha...
I've found Simon Schama's trilogy very difficult to read, I think for three reasons. Firstly, he expects the reader to know a great deal about the subject, in very fine detail – it feels like a book for historians rather than the general reading public. Second, the language seems to me to be a rathe...
I really enjoyed this series and Simon Schama's style, which made it easy to remain engaged in what is, especially over the course of three books, a mine of information on the history of Britain. It was informative and entertaining.
I think this volume was the most ponderous of the three of them, and I did struggle a couple of times in my journey through it, but the majority was engaging and interesting.
I found this, the third in the series, most enjoyable and engaging. I was very happy with the series as a whole and appreciated the wealth of information in its pages.
Schama covers in amazing detail the culture and history of the Netherlands during the peak of its Golden Age in the seventeenth century. He provides great insight on some of the origins of the traits we associate with the Dutch - strong business sense, open mindedness, high value for cleanliness an...
Well Researched and Informative though some Sections are a Grind I knew Schama from his A History of Britain series via BBC/History and I have been interested about the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, so that's what brought me to this book. My usual history reading were usually biographies or ge...
This is a mostly great book but there are two big problems. First, he attempts to walk the line between narrative and rigorous history. Mostly, it is a narrative, but he regularly criticizes other historians' opinions and the implication is that they weren't rigorous enough (sometimes he is explic...
About a year ago, I was watching Animal Plant or the National Geographic channel. I can't remember which one. Anyhow, there was this American, you know the kind that makes all Americans cringe. He was going in some cave filled with water and bat poop to look at snakes. He made this poor snake ba...
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