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Review Date: 4/25/2011
I found this book to be enjoyable if a little disjointed and over-long. Bob really loved the animals he and his wife acquired; they were not the kind of people who get an animal because it's cute or unusual and then leave it to go stir-crazy in a cage. The amount of care (and money--vets aren't cheap) he lavished on the beasties would exhaust a normal person. Some of it was laugh-out-loud funny and some was sad. Animals die. Sometimes other animals eat them.
You can see some of the family in action at Bob's website, www.bobtarte.com.
Overall, the book really made me appreciate the amount of daily affection I get from my cats in exchange for two scoops of chow and a box of sand.
You can see some of the family in action at Bob's website, www.bobtarte.com.
Overall, the book really made me appreciate the amount of daily affection I get from my cats in exchange for two scoops of chow and a box of sand.
Review Date: 12/26/2010
The title of the book is actually The World of the Past, edited by Jackquetta Hawkes. It is an anthology of historical writings on archaeology, ranging from Herodotus to Hawkes herself. If you are interested in the history of archaeology you will find this fascinating; if you have never heard of Qumran, Henry Layard, or Howard Carter I'd say give it a rest.
These are often personal accounts ("I saw it happen") of the earliest discoveries (Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Altamira and Lascaux caves, Ninevah, Babylon, and Egypt, including Tutankhamen's tomb. In fact, I will take this off my bookshelf if no one goes for it soon, just so I can read it again.
These are often personal accounts ("I saw it happen") of the earliest discoveries (Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Altamira and Lascaux caves, Ninevah, Babylon, and Egypt, including Tutankhamen's tomb. In fact, I will take this off my bookshelf if no one goes for it soon, just so I can read it again.
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