To: SunkenCiv
Oooh, do let me know how you like the Menzies book! I have it too, but haven’t started it yet.
In the same vein is “The City of Light,” by Jacob d’Ancona. So far, intriguing! It’s d’Ancona’s journal of how he entered China four years before Marco Polo did. Scholars still argue its legitimacy.
168 posted on
01/06/2009 5:55:12 PM PST by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.) OMG that's hilarious! Thanks!
175 posted on
01/07/2009 7:52:23 AM PST by
zeugma
(Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
To: Xenalyte
Oh, wow, I’m reading these pings newest first, and just posted about “The City of Light”! :’)
182 posted on
01/07/2009 4:59:55 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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