Originally reviewed at my blog: http://jrlovesbooks.blogspot.in/2013/...I didn’t have any exposure to vocabulary building books before I decided to pick Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis. Why I decided to pick this book is a reason very simple. I saw it in the best sellers list on Flipkart eve...
Having collected it off the train in London I set off somewhat cautiously to find a suitable road to try out its paces. This turned out to be the A120 going northwards through Epping Forest and virtually empty. The car accelerated easily up a slight gradient to about 110 mph, with power clearly i...
Apart from the elite Green Berets and paratroopers, the invasion force was poorly trained and lacking in combat experience. Infantry battalions had been largely recruited from peasantry of the flatlands of Java, many of whom had never seen a mountain before and had to be guided like crocodiles of...
Its colour, its mystery and its splendid wilderness were no more. Forests had become managed woodlands, rivers were bridged, villages were encircled by cabbage patches and advertisements for coffee were stencilled on walls. What was to be expected of Villa Real de Santo Antonio, we had enquired o...
You are warned to prepare yourself for a scarcely tamed White Man’s Grave, where you do not omit to take Sensible Precautions, stick to sundowners, keep your possessions in an ant-proof metal box, and wipe the mildew off your boots at regular intervals. I fell a victim to this propaganda to the e...
They rank amongst the world’s most sophisticated cultivators of the soil, employing horticultural techniques of their own devising only to be found in the most advanced countries of the West. In this way they provide themselves both with an ample diet and an abundance of leisure. They are notable...
He was acquainted with several of the honest men who have been eliminated by the Mafia in recent years. He was particularly close to Mauro De Mauro and Giuseppe Fava, both journalists, Cesare Terranova, judge, and Pio La Torre, member of parliament. This epilogue is dedicated to their memory. &nb...
Forgoing a place at university for lack of funds, he used the income from wedding photography and various petty trading to finance travels to Spain, Italy and the Balkans, before being approached by the Colonial Office to spy for them with his camera in Yemen. He moved to ...
Within a generation, all that remained of the grandiose civilizations of Central and South America were ruins and a wretched collection of plantation slaves, while to the north the impetus of conquest and extermination was only delayed. All the European newcomers were destroyers. The French demol...
Seng had come down to see me off, and here we parted most cordially. The soldiers had already stopped a jeep. In it were two Chinese merchants on their way from Kutkai to Mu-Sé. This town was not marked on my map, the production of a very well known map-making firm, which was vague – and, as I la...