Reviews for The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

The average rating for The New Encyclopaedia Britannica based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-24 00:00:00 Craig Pacelli This was my read the world selection for Benin. Benin was the first country I had trouble getting a book from, however I've had a few more since purchasing this book! My first preference is to read a book by an author from each country. I could only find 1 book from a Beninese author that had been translated to English, but the only place I could find that would send a copy to me in Australia was going to cost me $170 AUD ($115 USD). Yeah....no. So I had to go with Plan B, which is to read a book set in that country, which is where this book comes in. Show Me The Magic tells of the author's two trips to Benin within a short time frame (6 months apart), where she hires Isidore as her taxi driver to drive her to a number of different places around Benin. This was an informative and quite fun book of Annie and Isidore's adventures of traveling around Benin and I loved the dynamic between the two, as they frequently bickered and sulked with each other when they got tired. I found some of the translations of Benin's sayings hilarious, such as their reference to 'bicycle chickens' which are not the fat ones good for eating, but the ones that run around (or 'bicycle') all day, so they are lean and muscular with not much size to them....and therefore not good eating 😂 I also loved that they just dropped in to visit random kings in the country (Benin has a number of kingdoms). I thought it was a really fun read and probably had a lot of great information for anyone going there as a tourist. It certainly made me intrigued with Benin. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review # 2 was written on 2021-03-17 00:00:00 John Stoltz I LOVED this book; it's brilliantly funny, warm and fascinating. Really made me want to visit Benin!