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There's a lot of time to read on a boat. 

Thanks to Ray Otus for our thumbnail image. The intro music is a clip from "Solve the Damn Mystery" by Jesse Spillane, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Steve

Also, I read A Short Introduction to the 17th Century and it was terrible. From my Amazon review, lest any other of your readers be tempted by it: "Really not enjoying this. To start with it's a chapter taken from a much longer book and refers to things which were, I hope, explained in earlier chapters but which get short shrift here. It also reads like an extended opinion piece without much reference to the historical record. The author is clearly very clever and wants everyone to know this. It's what 18th Century historians might sound like when they get together in the bar after a conference. It is not a good introduction."

monsterman

This is a problem I have run into a few times. I'm sure I've told the story of having a supervision with a world expert on Kant who simply could not conceive of how little I knew.