Gertrude Bell. The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914. Edited by Rosemary O’Brien. Syracuse University Press. 0815606729

Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly, eds. Desert Travellers: From Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence. University of Durham. 0953970000

Dauril Alden. Charles R. Boxer: An uncommon life: Soldier, historian, teacher, collector, traveller. Lisbon: Fundacao Oriente. 9727850235
- Boxer (1904-2000) was a polymath whose life could be made into a book. And a great romance at the heart of it as well with the American Emily Hahn. Emily Hahn herself would make a fine biography. A note to myself is to search for her writings in the New Yorker and her book China To Me.

Lafcadio Hearn. Two Years in the French West Indies. Oxford. 1902669177

Isabella Tree. Sliced Iguana: Travels in Unknown Mexico. Hamish Hamilton. 024114051X
- this title got quite a good review in TLS (2001-07-27).

Mary Ashley Townsend. Here and There in Mexico. Ed. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Unviersity Press of Alabama.

  1. Books are for use.
  2. Books are for all: or Every reader his book.
  3. Every book its reader.
  4. Save the time of the reader.
  5. A library is a growing organism.

Janko, R. “The Derveni Papyrus: an Interim Text.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002) 1-62.

Janko, R. “The Derveni Papyrus (Diagoras of Melos, Apopyrgizontes Logoi?): a new translation”, Classical Philology 96 (2001), 1-32.

Betegh, Gabor. The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 441. ISBN 0-521-80108-7. $110.00.

André Laks and Glenn Most (edd.), Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The material is beautiful and precious
Though the cost is cheap, the quality is high…
Stretching out when it opens and rolling up
when put away…
To convey your affection to a distance of ten thousand miles away,
With your refined thought written at one corner.

There is no such thing as life without bloodshed.

War endures “because young men love it and old men love it in them.” Blood Meridian

What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God – who knows all that can be know – seems powerless to change. All the Pretty Horses

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