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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals

by Silvana Condemi

bookshelves: anthropology, archaeology, currently-reading

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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

by Phillip Lopate

bookshelves: currently-reading, essays

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The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery

by Eugene Arima

bookshelves: history, local-interest, native-indian, currently-reading

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages by Edward Gibbon

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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