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book 12:  Tim Tyler's Luck and the Plot of the Exiled King... by Lyman Young ( Read more... )

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A really great book, though hard to categorize! It's partly a history of a slave mentioned in a 12th-century letter, an ordinary person spared from the anonimity that history usually accords to people in such roles. The other side of the book is a narration of Amitav Ghosh's time spent living in rural Egypt as a part of his research. The book is a ( Read more... )