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Yes, give it a whirl. I only picked it up because I was curious as to Bryson's handling of the subject. Must say, if I 'd had a teacher with the 'Bryson' style in my younger days, I might have been a bit more interested in Shakespeare! :) Be interested to hear what any Shakespeare afficienados...

Just finished reading "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not the usual Bryson but still written in an entertaining and interesting way. He takes a look at Shakespeare, what we know of him, what we don't know of him and some of the mysteries that surround him. An interesting...

"Down the Great Unknown" by Edward Dolnick - account of a group of mainly American Civil War veterans who rowed the Grand Canyon river system in 1869 - the last unexplored area in the southwest. Incongruously, the leader of the expedition was one armed! (John Wesley Powell, an interesting...

Looking at my shelves, the books seem to be mainly outdoor adventure type travel writing - land and sea expeditions, historical and modern, plus a fairly wide variety of reference text books, along with a sprinkling of accounts of exploits involving WWII submarines. (submarines seem to hold...

Just signed up, so thought I'd better say hello! :) Ex Brit having lived in New Zealand for many years - enjoy the outdoors and most of my reads seem to be non fictional adventure type stuff. Will find it interesting to check out what others are reading and their comments on such. Hope to...

I've just finished reading, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" Ralston certainly had some fortitude to do what he did and the actual part of the book dealing with the incident was gripping (pardon the pun :) ) but I felt there was a bit of padding that wasn't of much interest to me. Worth a...