Reviews and Comments

This was fascinating. There are so many rituals for saying hello and goodbye. The book may need a 'social distancing' edition as many physical greetings may be unwise at the moment.

A wonderful book by a statesman and philosopher. He is very concerned with duty, kindness and the shortness of our existence. It would be good to have people like this as leaders today.

Most enjoyable. It's quite amazing what people do say in bookshops.

A helpful collection of quotations taken from a variety of books and teachers. It could be useful for people to read and find out with which teachers they resonate.

A beautifully illustrated book of poetry. Many poems have a sense of spaciousness and insight. Some seemed too narrative and some authors would never have known of Zen.

A favourite...

Cloud maps shift across
a windy sky, as unknown
countries ebb and flow
--Frances Howell

Fairly straightforward book of quotations. It was good to see that the authors had researched some of the authors to track down the originals and some of the more obscure sources.

I read the book quite quickly in order to gain some idea of the shape of it and its manner of presentation.

The book is an academic text more suited to study rather than general reading. It seems a little haphazardly structured and is peppered with typographical errors.

Nonetheless there is a great deal of interesting information. I shall return to this book at some point and approach it in a slower more studious manner.

Lots of quotations in chronological order. It might be better to organise them by topic.

Very interesting. Books like this are probably a little outdated now that it's possible to search online for any etymology. Nonetheless it was fascinating to read and learn of the origins of many common words.

Interesting and funny quotations, but the book could have been better edited for typos and repetition. Some of the people quoted are definitely not Welsh.

Thanks to many archaeologists and translators, the voice of a storyteller from 4000 years ago has survived to our time. It is incredible to be reading an epic so ancient. The story of the adventures of Gilgamesh and Enkidu is as gripping as any modern tale. It bridges a vast gulf of time. It is worth reading for the story itself, the sense of passing time, and a hint of how people would have lived in times past.

The introduction is quite interesting, but takes up the first half of the book. I would have made it shorter and put most of the information in appendices. I'd recommend reading the epic first and then deciding if you want to read the introduction.

This book emphasises looking and thinking carefully before taking a photograph. It doesn't prescribe any particular method, technology and certainly no rules. Follow your enthusiasm and take photographs to please yourself. See where that leads.

Highly recommended. 'Hominids' creates a believable alternate world that developed quite differently to our own. It reflects on our own world through the eyes of its main character and shows a world that could have been. Reading the book, there is such a sense of reality in the world created that you are quite drawn into it.