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The Travels
(Il Milione) Marco Polo (with Rustichello of Pisa) 1299 (An Italian explorer treks fearlessly into the unknown East, and discovers astonishing cultures and kingdoms no European had ever seen). We are fortunate that Marco Polo lived long enough and expended the energy to record the greatest travels ever performed by any man to his time […]
Pliny’s Letters
Pliny the Younger 97-109 AD (A wealthy lawyer reveals his personality and attitudes, and the way of life in Imperial Rome.) Many of us are acquainted with, or at least aware of, a certain species of lawyer, politician, or businessman. At first we notice the more grating aspects of his personality. He is near the top […]
The Right Stuff
May 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
Tom Wolfe 1979 (Seven pilots scale the ziggurat of manliness on the quest to be America’s space heroes.) Tom Wolfe probably awoke one morning and thought to himself, wouldn’t it be great if reading about current events were as fun as reading novels? And with as simple an idea as that, he kicked off the movement […]
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