Brian Lawrenson
Auteur de Mysteries of Easter Island (South American)
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Brian Lawrenson
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Membres
Critiques
Australia's Red Centre (Australian) par Brian Lawrenson
A travel review of a trip to Australia's center including Uluru and Alice Springs. Short, fairly interesting, and includes pictures.
Brian Lawrenson and his wife traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia. He recounts his adventures here. The book reads more like a diary that was kept than as a travel narrative. On occasions he would begin to really describe what he saw in vivid detail, but then it would be "cut short" leaving the reader wanting a longer description. The engaging portions were short-lived and brief, the rest of it was in need of further editing. Even though the book was short, one of the things that could have enhanced the book would have been to have broken the book into chapters. It would have given the reader good places to take a break. The photos did enhance the book. I had never really considered reading a travel book book from this part of the world until this book was offered free on the KIndle. This one whetted my appetite. I now would like to locate a better travel narrative of this region that describes the cultural elements encountered in more vivid detail.… (plus d'informations)
I found this book quite disappointing - not enough Marco Polo history, too much of "what we ate, saw, where we stayed, what we bought and where it is in our current house."
A brief account of a 10-day bus trip from Nepal to Lhasa and back taken by the author and his wife in 1986, as well as a short description of a 2009 or 2010 train journey taken by friends of theirs from Beijing to Lhasa. Well-written, but, at least on the Kindle copy, poorly edited. Still, for those interested in the topic, two neat little travelogues.
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Membres
- 141
- Popularité
- #145,671
- Évaluation
- 2.8
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 18