List of books

[telophase]

...to serve as a reminder when placing future Amazon orders. I found them through bookshelves of doom and random Amazon clicking.



Carpe Diem
Sovay 18th C England, girl disguised as a boy, and she's a highway man? Be still, my heart!
House of Many Ways (Diana Wynne Jones. Automatic buy.)
Zen and the Art of Faking It
Printer's Devil
The Ancient Chinese World
The Ancient South Asian World
The Land of the Silver Apples (sequel to The Sea of Trolls)
The Black Book of Secrets
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

ETA:

Gentlemen of the Road
Maps and Legends

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know the dude who wrote the Ancient South Asian World! He's pretty cool, though I haven't read that book.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool!

They both seem like good, simple history books to use as an overview. Most of the books I've got in the library here are, by nature of the academics, pretty heavy going and I feel the need for a good overview in my head before I get into the heavy details.

[chomiji]

It's books. How can it be boring?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

OK, fine, how about "cut for lack of commentary on them"? ")

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

I am so going to pre-order Sovay right this minute as an extra-extra-early birthday present to myself.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The description I read on bookshelves of doom was just "Highwaymen!" and that's all it took for me. XD

[chomiji]

Hmm ... Outlaws & Highwaymen web site (she has the lyrics to a tune I used to play on my recorder, "The Female Frolick," about a young lady turned highwayman).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

eee! I used to have a collection of highwaymen books, back when I was in highschool and really obsessed with them. XD

And when I was in college and studied abroad a semester and visited York, I made a point of finding Dick Turpin's grave and standing on it. :D (Gah! I just realized he was hanged when he was five years younger than me!)