Just a re-read of the early chapters this time - but this book is excellent and will be read many more times by me!

A strong start, but around the time of her experience of the winter solstice at Stonehenge I just found the tone of this book insufferably pretentious and frankly insulting. 

Owning books is not a personality type!

Unfortunately the writing style just isn’t for me. I found it excessively pedestrian and unengaging.

A perfect example to illustrate why non-historians shouldn’t write history books. 

“my new American friend and i took several wrong turns, and found ourselves suddenly stumbling out of the crumbling residential streets, onto a massive six-lane highway which told us we had gone too far. gargantuan heavy goods vehicles, massive petroleum tankers, and enormous Coca-Cola trucks thundered across the dying night, bellowing diesel through the city, causing the pavement to rumble beneath our feet.We stood stock still, dazed, in shock, in front of a shuttered mechanic’s shop, agog at the sight of this impenetrable traffic, regarding each other with an attitude of, Well, what now?”

Just because you know lots of words, doesn’t mean you need to use them all!