Alan’s Reviews > Library: An Unquiet History > Status Update

A learned book, filled with tidbits like the making of papyrus, from fibers of the homonymous plant with their natural agglutination, and the British Empire's seizure of the tablets of Nineveh (I oppose to the French, indeed Napoleon's, seizure of art from Rome). I admire Battles' quasi-humility when he notes that "most books are bad" and "fail to rise above the... confusions of their times (in this respect, I'm sure