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26 October 2011

Book Review: Formosa Betrayed, by George Kerr, *****

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Island of Tatan, off Quemoy with Nationalist flag By way of background... "Our experience in Formosa is most enlightening. The Ad...
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25 October 2011

Recensione: Percorsi d'Amore, di Maurizio Cremasco, ****

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Recensione Questa è una serie di poesie che trasmettono lo stato d'animo irrequieto dell'autore, uno scrittore che è stato pilota d...
15 October 2011

Book review: Coral Gardens, by Leni Riefenstahl, *****

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Review Leni Riefenstahl was a great, if politically controversial, movie director, but only later in her life she picked up photography in ...
14 October 2011

Book Review: A Little Book of Zen, *****

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I bought this book some six years ago and it has found a permament home atop my writing desk ever since. I open it almost every day, usually...
13 October 2011

Recensione: People from Ikea, di Andrea Pugliese, ***

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Sinossi Componendo a incastro questi tubi, ripiani, viti e bulloni, sono possibili milioni di combinazioni. Sul catalogo per tale meravigl...
10 October 2011

Book Review: Slaves of the Cool Mountains, by Alan Winnington, *****

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Author with released slaves in Yunnan Synopsis Beijing, 1956: foreign correspondent Alan Winnington heard reports of slaves being fre...
01 October 2011

Book Review: Excerpta Maldiviana, by HCP Bell, *****

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Male' harbour in early 1880s H.C.P. Bell 1887 This is not easy reading. In fact it is not really meant for reading at all. It is mo...
24 September 2011

Book review: Maldives: Kingdom of a Thousand Isles (2004), by Andrew Forbes, ****

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Cemetery on a Maldivian island Precious little is written on the Maldives besides guide books on posh resorts. This book goes a long way...
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12 September 2011

In treno in giro per l'Italia

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La settimana scorsa ho deciso di prendere il treno per andare da alcuni amici a Vicenza. Aperta la pagina delle prenotazioni di Trenitalia...
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01 September 2011

Bibliography: Books on the Maldives

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This is my selection of most significant books on the Maldive islands, which I have visited at least ten times since 2003: culture, history,...
25 August 2011

Book Review: Daily Life in China in the XIII century, by Jacques Gernet, *****

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Gengiz Khan and Chinese Tangut envoys This book deals with one of the periods when China, then numbering sixty million inhabitants, was ...
15 August 2011

Book Review: The Two Thousand Isles: A Short Account of the People, History and Customs of the Maldive Archipelago, by T. W. Hockly (1935), ***

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Old Friday mosque in Malè, perhaps early XX century Review A short account of the people, history and customs of the Maldive Archipela...
14 August 2011

Book Review: Spectrum Guide to Maldives, by Camerapix, ****

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Review This is an interesting book on the Maldives, unlike most guide books on the market. It contains lots of useful data about the count...
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10 August 2011

Book Review: Maldives Mistery, by Thor Heyerdahl, ***

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From the museum of Malè, 2009 Synopsis When the Maldive Islanders converted to Islam in the 12th century, they discarded or destroyed ...
03 August 2011

Il mercato dei libri in Italia: poveri noi lettori di libri, "protetti" dalla nuova legge sugli sconti.

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Il parlamento italiano ha approvato, con nefasto consenso trasversale, una legge che regolamenta il prezzo dei libri, il "ddl Levi 22...
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