Tag Archives: Falkland Islands

Book Review: Patagonia (Moon)

Posted on July 5, 2024 by nathanalbright

Patagonia, Including The Falkland Islands (Moon), by Wayne Bernhardson One the one hand, it is impossible not to celebrate the sheer ambition of a book that seeks to encourage travel to a sprawling and sparsely inhabited region of South America … Continue reading →

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Gibraltar And The Self-Governing Paradox

Posted on June 23, 2023 by nathanalbright

Like other territories that I have visited like the Virgin Islands and Guam, Gibraltar and many other British imperial possessions sits on the list of non-self governing territories. One of the stark paradoxes of the place of the British lands … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Battle For The Falklands

Posted on October 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Battle For The Falklands, by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins If this book is the most thorough book I have ever read on the Falklands war and on the lack of decisiveness regarding how it was fought and how … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bradt: Falkland Islands

Posted on October 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

Bradt:  Falkland Islands, by Will Wagstaff Admittedly, my interest in the Falklands Islands and its history [1] is probably unusual.  Still, given that this book exists, and is in my local library, it cannot be such an unusual interest that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bleaker House

Posted on October 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

Bleaker House:  Chasing My Novel To The End Of The World, by Nell Stevens Any fool can make a book–this book is evidence of that, as long as one has the right agent and editor who can piece together fragments … Continue reading →

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The Bleakest House Of All

Posted on March 3, 2020 by nathanalbright

In reading a genre-confused book by a wannabe author called Bleaker House, in homage to the bleakness of her nearly uninhabited island (named Bleaker) in the Falklands and to a late-period Charles Dickens novel called Bleak House, I was struck … Continue reading →

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