Khym lam biography examples
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The Golden Maze
"The nation of St Wenceslas, Jan Hus and Tomas Masaryk will not be a nation of slaves"
A couple of years ago on a whim I picked up GHOST EMPIRE by Richard Fidler - the Eastern Roman Empire is something that I wasn't particularly familiar with and it had fairly good reviews. In the end, it turned out to be less about the Eastern Roman Empire and more about Constantinople/Istanbul itself by way of a general history.
I found this really interesting - it's not very common to find a book so focused on the history of a single city rather than a country, a people, a period - so when I saw THE GOLDEN MAZE on the shelf, knowing very little about Prague, I snapped it up.
The Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia is a country that I pretty much always forget exists, to my discredit. Similar to Switzerland or Belgium, it is a small country locked in by larger powers on all sides, and has been for most of its history - from its beginnings through the highs of Bohemia and the lows of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic under the USSR.
Much like GHOST EMPIRE, GOLDEN MAZE is incredibly readable - it isn't deep history by any means, but it's still incredibly interesting and informative, providing a good overview of the Golden City and, importantly,
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Saga Land
This book, part-travelogue, part-family history, part story-telling is a wonderful tribute to Iceland and its Viking history. There are different types of sagas as well: family sagas, including co-author Kári Gíslason’s own family saga and the saga of Snorri Sturluson.
Richard Fidler and Kári Gíslason met when Fidler interviewed Gíslason about his unusual family history. Kári Gíslason was born in Reykjavik to Susan, an Australian, and her Icelandic lover Gísli. Gísli was a married father of five, who begged her to keep his identity secret. Gíslason returned to Iceland as a young adult and contacted his half siblings. There was a family get-together, during which Gísli told Gíslason that he was descended from Snorri Sturluson, Iceland’s most famous writer of sagas.
The sagas are the stories, a history, of the Vikings who settled in Iceland during the Middle Ages. They are bloodthirsty tales of honour and revenge, of great significance to the Icelandic people. The sagas are read at school and their meaning is still debated.
‘Saga Land’ is a record of two trips made by the authors (one in summer, the other in winter). The trip had two purposes: to make a radio documentary retelling some of the sagas whe