tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post2445776651491852235..comments2024-03-10T09:24:45.565+02:00Comments on Dispatches from Vilnius: Bienville's DilemmaJames Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-26524046106038851432010-08-31T05:04:31.389+03:002010-08-31T05:04:31.389+03:00This sounds like a good one for us to take a look ...This sounds like a good one for us to take a look at. My high school world history teacher had a thing about geography; we spent a lot of time contemplating rivers, mountain passes, feverish marshes. Prepped me for the joys of reading Fernand Braudel many years later. Now I think I could get some good out of Bienville's book.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818522346723485679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-13153128657225469082010-08-30T16:52:50.353+03:002010-08-30T16:52:50.353+03:00I took a class in historical geography and remembe...I took a class in historical geography and remember reading other work by this writer. This one might be very good. Geography really is destiny in many ways.<br /><br />I had sort of given up on watching the news straight through like I did during the election, so try to catch Rachel Maddow from time to time on the web. Her piece on the engineering of New Orleans that I posted earlier is very avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.com