Book reviews and recommendations.
15 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoCelt97
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk is a sprawling true story of how European explores came to Central Asia in search of buried empires and treasures in the old cities...
14 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoCelt97
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk is a book about the pre-cursor to the cold war that happened in the 19th century between the British Empire and Russia. It is called ‘The Great Game’ because it was a secret war...
14 Mar 2021 2 minute read 1 comment CryptoCelt97
The Wendigo is a short horror novella (48 pages) written in the early 20th century by the famed author Algernon Blackwood. The scene is set when a rag-tag group of hunters delve deep into the uncharted and unforgiving Canadian wilderness in search of...
