Longitude is a brief book that explains with very easy words why knowing on which longitude were you located was such a technological feat on the XV century and the historical events that came to the solution using very precise and reliable clocks aboard the ships. In the age of …Read the Rest
My brain sometimes is in Eurocentric mode and that makes Ann crazy. When we where traveling in India she gave …Read the Rest
This book is the history of a missionary family, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of …Read the Rest
Before Rollback, I had only read one book of Sawyer before, titled ‘The terminal experiment’. I remember that read it …Read the Rest