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Yesterday, finished First Across The Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie, by Barry Gough, the life story of the first European to cross the North American continent, which Mackenzie accomplished ten years before Lewis and Clark. A good tale, but his missions (the first in which he discovered the river outlet to the Arctic Ocean, the second, his journey to the Pacific in British Columbia) were strictly for commercial reasons. A native Scot, he was seeking British trade dominance in furs and better business intercourse with Russia, Japan and China. Yes, Lewis and Clark were looking for the same sort of thing, but it was a secondary plot and differs in that Mackenzie did very little, if anything, scientific on his way. Lewis and Clark get The Cap'ns nod for a greater effort. As well, the author was a little too jingoistic and "Maple Leaf-y" about his subject.
2.5 stars out of four.
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Read the first 57 pages tonight of Showdown: The Lithuanian Rebellion and the Breakup of the Soviet Empire, by Richard J. Krickus. The author purports that Lithuanian Rebellion of March 1990, well before the final breakup of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991, was, indeed, the seminal event in that dissolution. The Soviets failed to crush the standoff and it lead to Gorbachev's and his country's demise. Very early at this point in a thumbail sketch of Lithuania's unfortunate history of invasion, occupation, reinvasion and reoccupation
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