Latest Books

I haven't posted a books read list in a while, but not for lack of reading:

• The Three Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight For the West by Megan Kate Wilson 
• Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II by Chris Bishop
• Herbal Medic: A Green Beret's Guide to Emergency Medical Preparedness and Natural First Aid by Sam Coffman
• Rosemary Gladstar's Medicial Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Use and Grow by Rosemary Gladstar
• Combat Contrails: Vietnam by William B. Scott
• Crowns in the Gutter by Ted S. Raicer
• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
• Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief by Tenant Bagley
• Small Arms of WWII: USA by Ian McCollum

Weekend Activities

• Went a nice hike at Torrey Pines and got rained on a bit
• Drove up to San Juan Capistrano, in the rain, to visit the mission.  Good thing they have umbrellas to lend.  The mission was a great spot and we had lunch with friends afterward.

Old stone church at Mission San Juan Capistrano

Stack of Books Read

• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
  
• An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Dafoe
  
• Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManus
  
• Revolutionary War Soldier 1775 - 1783 by Keith Wilbur
  
• Dutch Oven Camp Cooking by Vernon Winteroni
  
• Abandoned Southern California by Joanna Kalafatis
  
• The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War by Mark Stille
  

Victims of Communism Day

 Let remember all the past and ongoing victims of communism.

Summer Books

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
  
• War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers and an American Invasion by Jeff Guinn
  
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  
• Life of Soldier on the Western Frontier by Jeremy Agnew
  
• Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
  

Winter Books

 Been a while since I posted a books list...

• Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep
  
• West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt
  
• Alone in the Fortress of the Bears: 70 Days Surviving Alaska Wilderness Foraging, Fishing Hunting by Bruce Nelson
  
• Mammoth Gold
• Tales Along Camino Sierra by Dale and Gayle Woodruff
  
• Experiencing Medieval Europe by Kenneth Bartlett
  
• Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot Cohen and John Gooch
  
• Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
  
• The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands 1942 - 1944 by Ian Toll
• History of Hitler's Empire by Thomas Childers
  

Book Potpourri

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  
• Who Was Davy Crockett by Gail Herman
  
• American Revolution for Dummies by Steve Wiegand
  
• Adventure Expedition One: Plan and Execute Your First Successful Expedition by Aaron Linsdau and Dr. Terry Williams
• Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
  

Lockdown reading

• Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History Financial Disasters by Connel Fullenkamp
• San Dieguito Heritage by Maura Wiegand
• The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession and Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler
• Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape Our Universe by Martin Rees
• Aircraft Carriers Vol. 2: 1946 - 2005 by Norman Polmar
• Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

Winter Book Reading

• My Twenty Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle
• American Revolution by Alan Guelzo
• Man-made Wonders ofthe World
• Socialism Sucks by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
• Sixty Meters to Anywhere by Brendan Leonard
• Refighting thePacific War: An Alternative History of World War II edited by Jim Bresnahan
• Carrier! Life Aboard a WWII Aircraft Carrier by LCDR Max Miller

Books

• Ancient Civilizations of North America by Edwin Barnhart
• Julian City and Cuyamaca Country by Charles R. LeManager
• Fake by Robert Kiyosaki
• 1917: Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
• 12 Essential Scientific Concepts by Indre Viskontas

Books

• Turning Points inMiddle East History by Eamonn Gearon
• Drinking With theSaints: The Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour by Michael P. Foley
• The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
• Ramona and RoundAbout: A History of San Diego's Little Known Backcountry by Charles LeManager
• Southern California'sWWII Aircraft by Cory Graff and Patrick Devine
• Highways to History: A Driving Guide to the Historic Places of the San Diego Mountains by Christopher Wray
• How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII by Lars Celander
• Geography forDummies by Charles A. Heatwole
• Genetics for Dummies by Tara Rodden Robinson
• The American West: History, Myth and Legacy by Patrick Allitt
• World War I: The Great War by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Books and Lectures

• Jerky: The Fatted Calf's Guide to Cooking and Preserving Dry Meaty Goods by Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller
• In the Kingdom ofIce: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
• Coffee Isn't RocketScience: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying, Brewing, Serving, Roasting and Tasting Coffee by Sebastien Racineux and Chung-Len Tran
• A Brief History of Time by Stephan Hawking
• Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
• The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Professor Dorsey Armstrong
• The Other Side ofHistory: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Professor Robert Garland
• Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Midsummer Books

Great World Religions: Islam by John L. Esposito
The Gold Hunters: A First-Hand Picture of Life in California Mining Camps in the Early Fifties by J. D. Borthwik
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich
The the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
World War I: The Definitive Visual History by R. G. Grant
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson
Foundations of Economic Prosperity by Daniel W. Drezner

Lots of Books

Lots of stuff read and listened to:

• Fleet at Flood Tide by James D. Hornfischer
• It Happened in the Cimarron Country by Stephen Zimmer and Steve Lewis
• The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah by Ray C. Colton
• Big Pacific by Rebecca Tansley
• Neptune's Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
• Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Allen Guelzo
• Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays and Isotopic Murder: A Journey Into the Wild World of Nuclear Science by James Mahaffey
• Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power by James Mahaffey
• Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage by Waterman L. Ormsby

Summer Reading

• History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer - great overview of the history of the world during this time, not just Europe
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewan - eye-opening
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard - long and tedious
• Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Moving Over Snow by Mike Zawaski - some material for high adventure training
• The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars For the American West by Peter Cozzens - great narrative
• The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico: 1861-1862 by Helen Haines - short
• Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle by C. Vann Woodward - dated language but good

Books Read

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Atlas Obscura by Joshua Fora and Dylan Thuras
• On Trails by Robert Moor
• City of Fortune: How Venice Rules the Seas by Roger Crowley
• Pacific Crest Trailside Reader by Rees Hughes and Corey Lewis

Winter Reading List

Books

• Boar Island by Nevada Barr - Barr's best in a while
• Yellowstone: A Journey Through America's Heart by David Quammen - a different look on Yellowstone
• Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and Imagined by Ron Miller - a trip to KSC piqued my interest in space travel
• EveryDayCook by Alton Brown - I love Alton Brown but unfortunately he is not very paleo
• Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness by William Sullivan - great hiking log
• Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey - interesting narrative and analysis of the days leading to Dec. 7
• Great Maps by Jerry Brotton - Fabulous books on historical maps

Books

• I Wanna Go Back: Stories of the Philmont Rangers by Warren Smith
• The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming
• Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years by John McHugo
• A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathanial Philbrick
• Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome by Bob Madgic
• The Romanovs: 1613 - 1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley

Some History Books

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy by Ian Toll
Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

C. Keith Wilbur Books

I ran through the canon of C. Keith Wilbur books at the library:

• Pirates and Patriots of the Revolution
• Civil War Medicine
• Tall Ships of the World
• The New England Indians
• The Revolutionary Soldier
• Woodland Indians
• Home Building and Woodworking in Colonial America