[SunkenCiv]

I read this, and highly recommend it. A second title, which I plan to resume reading this week (the library due date approaches) is "Shakespeare the Thinker" and is perhaps a bit dry. It has the interesting fact that, when Shakespeare was a boy, a slightly older girl with the last name Hamlett slipped into the Avon river and drowned. And around that same time a possibly unrelated John Shakespeare hanged himself in a nearby, uh, hamlet. Suck on that, Oxfordians and Baconians! ;')

Last night I found a reference to the online version of the above while reading the early pages of the title below. Author Wells mentioned in particular the free content.

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Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells

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[SunkenCiv]

This is a nice intro to India; I've got to the midpoint (it's due back at the library in a couple of days, or maybe it's tomorrow) where the Yueh-chi / Tocharians / Kushans are discussed for a while.

...Kapisa, the summer capital of the Kushans. Here, in 1937, French archaeologists found the greatest single hoard of artistic treasures ever discoverd in Afghanistan: a wonderfully eclectic mixture of Silk Route artefacts... including a unique glass painting of one of the Wonders of the World, the Pharos of Alexandria. [p 119]

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India Michael Wood BBC DVD

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[spyone]

It is a fool who doesn’t bookmark a Civ post.
I enjoyed this Marco Polo bio:
http://www.amazon.com/Marco-Polo-Venice-Xanadu-Vintage/dp/1400078806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231300672&sr=1-1

[spyone]

And am reading this on the rise of Islam....
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Crucible-Making-Europe-570-1215/dp/0393333566/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231301088&sr=1-1