So the cruise is off,
Now you have to stay home and read all these good books.
Don
So the cruise is off,
> Now you have to stay home and read all these good books.
>
> Don
Boy, that ought to keep him busy.
So the cruise is off,
Yes and we'll expect a term paper on each one so get to it!
I concur on Two Years Before the Mast.
Have fun on the cruise, but sadly I don't read much of anything that is fiction, or non-surveying. Unless its for a 2 year old. I've read Wheels on the bus about 1000 times.
Measuring America, or Chaining Oregon are decent reads if you ever feel like that topic. Cheers.
For radically political or religious (depending on how you interpret it), and especially reading on a cruise, it would be hard to beat:
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
Very entertaining and readable with an especially great surprise ending. I think more people have not read it because of the subtitle. But the subtitle seems intentionally misleading and adds to the story in my view. Try it, you'll like it.
2 that I have enjoyed lately are, Hanta Yo and Children of First Man.
Both are very good and are about the Plains Indians.
Joe
P.L.,
I always love it when William de la Touche Clancy shows up...
Measuring America is pretty much about surveying history, which he said he didn't want.
Andro Linklater's later book Fabric of America is less about surveying and more about history and politics between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. It follows Andrew Ellicott, who ran many important lines, but it really is less about him than about the situations around him. Linklater tries to make the point that boundaries influenced the development of the country. This didn't come across as strongly to me as he seemed to want. What I got out of it was more of the political aspects.
