A review by davidwright
Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants by Aubrey de Sélincourt, John M. Marincola, Herodotus

4.0

Love the Penguin Great Journeys series, which pulls abridgements from things like Herodotus's History and creates attractive little reads like this one out of them. Lu read me the New Yorker review of the new Landmark Herodotus that has just came out, and I returned the favor by reading to her some of these odd traveler's tales from the ancient historian in the loud hawaiian shirt. Lots of fun. My only objection is there are none of the Scythian parts here, but that is just because I have kind of a thing for the Scythians, tricky little mail-clad horse-happy buggers that they were.