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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
2 reviews
alsoapples's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, War, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death
Minor: Death of parent
coreyarch9's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "It was the stone tool equivalent of a Korean taco, whose delightful existence is thanks entirely to a history of cultural mixing."
I don't know why I am into so many science-y books this year, but here I am, back with a review of yet another science-y book!
I loved Four Lost Cities. For me, a good book is one that teaches me something, makes me wonder, and holds my attention throughout. This book easily did all three!
I loved following Newitz along her adventures as she visited four archeological sites and learned about the various aspects of everyday, mundane life as well as the circumstances that led to those once-great cities becoming "lost."
"As always, the truth is weirder and more complicated than the legend."
My favorite location was Çatalhöyük, "a city built before cities existed." But the most fascinating lost city was one located right in my own country. I had no clue about Cahokia's existence! A city that, at the time, was bigger than Paris and provided a cultural epicenter for Indigenous Americans... and I had never learned about it! (Or at least, not memorably.)
Y'all, I learned so much that I tabbed the shit out of this book. I'm not usually one to annotate, I definitely am not one to write in my books, but this one calls for something, at the very least.
I don't know why I am into so many science-y books this year, but here I am, back with a review of yet another science-y book!
I loved Four Lost Cities. For me, a good book is one that teaches me something, makes me wonder, and holds my attention throughout. This book easily did all three!
I loved following Newitz along her adventures as she visited four archeological sites and learned about the various aspects of everyday, mundane life as well as the circumstances that led to those once-great cities becoming "lost."
"As always, the truth is weirder and more complicated than the legend."
My favorite location was Çatalhöyük, "a city built before cities existed." But the most fascinating lost city was one located right in my own country. I had no clue about Cahokia's existence! A city that, at the time, was bigger than Paris and provided a cultural epicenter for Indigenous Americans... and I had never learned about it! (Or at least, not memorably.)
Y'all, I learned so much that I tabbed the shit out of this book. I'm not usually one to annotate, I definitely am not one to write in my books, but this one calls for something, at the very least.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Suicide
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