Book Reviews - The Mad Traveler

Book Review: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

What little most of us know of Cleopatra has come to us through fiction and Hollywood production. Oddly enough, the

A trip to Egypt is a trip into the maw of history. While some travelers can be content skipping along

I loved history enough to major in it in college, and literature enough to give it an equal study. So

Michigan, like my own state of Wisconsin, has a lovely outdoors scene. I think of Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories, of