Reviews for Outlines & Highlights for Through Womens Eyes: An American History with Documents, Volume 2 ...

The average rating for Outlines & Highlights for Through Womens Eyes: An American History with Documents, Volume 2 ... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-04-13 00:00:00 Mark Brunell I was hoping for an account of natural life in a remote part of the world (and the few passages where he reported on beautiful scenery or animals in their habitats were written well and evoked lovely detailed imagery). HOWEVER, what I got was racism, including a story seemingly intended to glorify a slave owner. Also a lot of animals being killed, stuffed and subjected to poison experiments. Certainly not what I was expecting and reading sections was often repugnant.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-27 00:00:00 TImo Koepe The imagery of the book was very well done. I could easily imagine the beauty of the forests. A lot of the speech came off a bit flowery, but not so much that you needed footnotes to explain what they meant. The details were, at times, a bit painful to read (I refer specifically to the times some act of animal cruelty was mentioned - i.e. poisoning of the dog to show just how lethal and fast acting a certain poison was). Some of my favorite parts was when he was describing the animals, specifically the sloths, and out of all the journeys, the third was my favorite solely because a large chunk of it talked about the animals there. My only complaint is how the book was broken up. It's great he separated the journeys but I wish there were chapter breaks in the journeys because running it all together made it seem a little tedious and, at times, confusing.