Joshua Hammer
Writer at Freelance
I'm a freelance magazine journalist and author, and an ex-Newsweek Correspondent-At-Large
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Joshua Hammer
In "The Six," Steven Schwankert tells an amazing story of survival, slander and mystery. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE SIX: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors, by Steven SchwankertHas any tragedy been more exhaustively documented than the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic?
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3 weeks ago |
airmail.news | Joshua Hammer
Great discoveries and epic rivalries were par for the course in the heated intellectual atmosphere of Victorian England. Think of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, the two giants of evolutionary theory, sparring over the mechanisms of natural selection, or John Speke and Richard Burton, the African explorers, feuding bitterly over who deserved credit for finding the source of the Nile.
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3 weeks ago |
airmail.news | Joshua Hammer
Great discoveries and epic rivalries were par for the course in the heated intellectual atmosphere of Victorian England. Think of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, the two giants of evolutionary theory, sparring over the mechanisms of natural selection, or John Speke and Richard Burton, the African explorers, feuding bitterly over who deserved credit for finding the source of the Nile.
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1 month ago |
audiofilemagazine.com | Joshua Hammer
Listening to this history of the 1850s competition to decipher ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions is like listening to a Jules Verne or Conan Doyle adventure yarn. Narrator Matthew Lloyd Davies is a familiar voice in mystery and suspense fiction, and he clearly relishes what is not a musty story of scholarly reflection, but a cliff-hanger full of surprises and unexpected twists. Davies is a wonderful narrator for this kind of work, droll and cosmopolitan and silken to the ear.
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1 month ago |
bismarcktribune.com | Marcie R. Rendon |Connie Briscoe |Clare Hall |Joshua Hammer
Is it getting sleuthy in here? There are a lot of mysteries hitting shelves. There’s also the return of two fictional women we’d all like to have on our side if we were in the vicinity of a murder: Minnesota’s Cash Blackbear and San Francisco’s Vera Wong. As these five much-anticipated titles reveal, this also seems to be a good time for taking new looks at classic tales of twisted romance. ‘Broken Fields’By Marcie R.
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Europeans and Americans were swept up by Assyria fever in the early 1850s, as explorers dug up 2,500-year-old palaces, such as this one at Nineveh. Read about their discoveries, and the race to decipher the texts on the palace walls, in ‘The Mesopotamian Riddle,’ out March 18. https://t.co/GnVZvvlVPS
RT @SimonBooks: Discover one of history’s great vanishing acts in THE MESOPOTAMIAN RIDDLE, @Joshuaiveshamme's rollicking adventure through…