All Reviews by Ray Kerry
Dollars and Sense
by William Crosbie Hunter
I would recommend that this book be added to the curriculum of all schools.
For those starting a business or thinking of starting one,this will surely help you on your way.
Even if you don`t wish to start a business this book will help you to arrange your life to advantage.
The Problems of Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
An Honours degree in the English language or a very large and comprehensive dictionary would certainly be helpful for those who wish to fully understand what this learned gentleman has to say.
I had neither and have therefore missed most of his points-I assume.
I have left this at three stars as it seems almost to be undecipherable to a mortal man.
I have little doubt that a person who could understand it would give it five stars however.
ABC's of Science
by Charles Oliver
Very out of date and in parts almost metaphysical in character-bordering on the mystical.
It contains little-if any-useful data for the modern scientist or student.
The Fun of Getting Thin
by Samuel Blythe
Elita has said it all perfectly exactly as I would have said it-had I the ability to do so.
The Flying Saucers are Real
by Donald Keyhoe
A somewhat rambling account of a reporters attempt to discover an explanation of the mysterious UFO sightings during the first half of the 20th century.
This man is not a story teller, he is a news reporter and as such his ability to render this account in an entertaining way leaves much to be desired.
Whilst based in fact, I assume that this will only really grip the die-hard UFO curious.
His conclusions contain no earth shattering revelations.
I am pushed to award it three stars.
Sailing Alone Around The World
by Joshua Slocum
The first to sail around the world alone in recorded history(not Sir Francis Chichester).
Top of the Mariners Library since he made the voyage.
Kaiser Wilhelm said that he liked the book "because it never displayed any fear" in what must have been-in parts-a harrowing journey.
Open it anywhere and just go for a sail.
5 stars +
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
by J.H. Patterson
A fascinating work of non-fiction. The building of the railroad between Mombasa and Nairobi Kenya in the late 1890`s.
Colonel Pattersons autobiography of his problems with maneating lions and his forays into the world of big game hunting gets a bit gruesome in places,but you really get to see how it was before tourism took over.
This all takes place in the almost Garden Of Eden like East Africa of that era.
One gets an insight into the way of thinking of those doughty old aristocrats of yore. He may have been English,but he was certainly very different in his way of thinking than we modern English.
I found it a wonderful book and feel able to make comparisons having lived in Kenya for some eight years and unhesitatingly give it five stars.
The book was made into a film called The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.
Tolkachev, A Worthy Successor to Penkovsky
by Barry G. Royden
A fascinating read straight out of the pages of cold war history.
Here we have the real world of spying fact.