The Light Garden of the Angel King

I never really connected with the writing in this book. Against all my expectations, I found it to be fairly dry. Packed full of history - people, places, events, archaeology, culture - but ultimately, quite dry. Even Bruce Chatwin only got the odd mention, despite being his constant companion.

Despite being 185 pages long (excluding the note, poetry and index) it felt like a 400 page book! To be fair it is very small type.

Another reviewer nailed it when he said Sometimes, however, the beauty of the country or a particular episode touches the author in a different way and the book comes alive. Unfortunately these bits are not that many, which is too bad, for the trip he did, the incredible things seen and experienced really deserved a better storyteller. Couldn't have explained it better myself.

So high two star, low 3 star from me. Maybe I should have read this slowly and sparingly, with a couple of other books.