Bouquins & Books | Reading Challenge: Around the World in Nonfiction @bouquinsbooks | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
I mention Ros and her challenge of reading around the world in fiction. Here is a playlist of her videos on the topic: youtube.com/watch?v=fAxp8z3JHEo&list=PL1gFZZW3aXa6oYtg4-VZW9vBkzfps4dnS
How do you start a new country: youtube.com/watch?v=hX4s1ZLW_PI
0:00 General chitchat
1:42 The inspiration
2:33 My project
11:15 My goal
13:35 My starting point (the map)
Books mentioned or alluded to:
Journey Without Return; Raymond Maufrais
The Last Emperor of Mexico; Edward Shawcross
Sovietistan; Erika Fatland
Havana; Mark Kurlanski (My video on this book: youtube.com/watch?v=55y5uYy-soM)
Orwell in Cuba; Frédérick Lavoie
Notes on a Small Island; Bill Bryson
We Don't Know Ourselves; Fintan O'Toole
SPQR; Mary Beard
War and Punishment; Mikhail Zygar
For Want of a Fir Tree; Frédérick Lavoie
Russie, réformes et dictatures; Andreï Kozovï
Eat The Buddha; Barbara Demick
Red Memory; Tania Branigan
The Trouser People; Andrew Marshall
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burma; Beth Ellis
Every Day the River Changes; Jordan Salama
Born a Crime; Trevor Noah
The Innocent Anthropologist; Nigel Barley
Cleopatra; Stacy Schiff
In my Father's Court; Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea; Barbara Demick
A Death in the Rainforest; Don Kulick
Sea People; Christina Thompson
Voyagers; Nicholas Thomas
Black Wave; Kim Ghattas
I mention Ros and her challenge of reading around the world in fiction. Here is a playlist of her videos on the topic: youtube.com/watch?v=fAxp8z3JHEo&list=PL1gFZZW3aXa6oYtg4-VZW9vBkzfps4dnS
How do you start a new country: youtube.com/watch?v=hX4s1ZLW_PI
0:00 General chitchat
1:42 The inspiration
2:33 My project
11:15 My goal
13:35 My starting point (the map)
Books mentioned or alluded to:
Journey Without Return; Raymond Maufrais
The Last Emperor of Mexico; Edward Shawcross
Sovietistan; Erika Fatland
Havana; Mark Kurlanski (My video on this book: youtube.com/watch?v=55y5uYy-soM)
Orwell in Cuba; Frédérick Lavoie
Notes on a Small Island; Bill Bryson
We Don't Know Ourselves; Fintan O'Toole
SPQR; Mary Beard
War and Punishment; Mikhail Zygar
For Want of a Fir Tree; Frédérick Lavoie
Russie, réformes et dictatures; Andreï Kozovï
Eat The Buddha; Barbara Demick
Red Memory; Tania Branigan
The Trouser People; Andrew Marshall
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burma; Beth Ellis
Every Day the River Changes; Jordan Salama
Born a Crime; Trevor Noah
The Innocent Anthropologist; Nigel Barley
Cleopatra; Stacy Schiff
In my Father's Court; Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea; Barbara Demick
A Death in the Rainforest; Don Kulick
Sea People; Christina Thompson
Voyagers; Nicholas Thomas
Black Wave; Kim Ghattas
