From The Graphic – weekly newspaper 1879
This is copied from The Graphic – the bath routine looks interesting.
Life on a military troopship – article from The Graphic 1879
Book Review: Forgotten Kingdom – Nine Years in Yunnan, 1939-1948 by Peter Goullart
Forgotten Kingdom – Nine Years in Yunnan, 1939-48 by Peter Goullart
This is a travel book that unfurls like a lotus flower. It has happiness at its heart but is grown out of hardship in the steep-sided valleys of south-western China.
The decade is the 1940s and the location is the province of Yunnan, geographically cut apart from the rest of China and still webbed with tribes, traditions and traders.
Book Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Thoroughly read copy of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
I know of slavery, of its shame and horror, and neither makes it my preferred topic when it comes to books. But this was a gift … so I began.
It was worth it.
The Phraser 