I am doing my best to follow ADM Stavridis’ advice on writing and productivity, I am going to provide periodic updates on my thoughts and/or good quotes from books as I read them. Hopefully from these short updates I will better be able to write the book reviews that I’d like to get published. The last three books that I read (The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon by Shannon Beebe and Mary Kaldor, The Shadow of the Sun by Kapuscinski and The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell) I will have to almost reread in their entirety in order to give them a coherent review.
So without further ado:
Currently, I am reading The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley. These are the memoirs of his time/life in Africa. So far it’s an incredible book that reads more like an adventure novel. A few months ago I was at a reception for POLADs (Political Advisors) at the State Department and I was speaking with one gentlemen headed back to the continent. We started discussing books, and he said that The Zanzibar Chest was his favorite book on Africa. Already I can see why.
It’s always great to research the author and following are a few links on him.
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