Title: Replenishing the Earth, The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1783 -1939
Author: James Belich
I found this book very heavy going. It was both heavy to hold & very heavy reading. So heavy reading that each night I would read about a page & then I was asleep with the book on top of my face. I had the book for a month from the library but I never got it finished. I must have got about halfway & then I had to return it again. I have to say that I didn't check if I could renew it because really I had had enough, I needed some lighter reading.
This book read like a text book that could possibly used for studying anthropology. It was kind of interesting how so much of the Western world speaks English & not Dutch or Spanish or French, but really I was never so interested in it that I wanted to carry on reading it.
I gave it a crack but I have to say for the way I read books, entertainment these days, I'm done with serious studying, it really wasn't up my alley.
2 comments:
Heee I think everyone else thought the same :)
Same! It read like a university text - which I suppose it it. Pity as I'd looked forward to it but couldn't 'handle' it (in all respects of the word word).
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