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Request for Nonfiction must reads (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by DaleGribble88@programming.dev to c/books@lemmy.ml

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What non-fiction book could you just not put down? Was it a biography? Some obscure textbook? A collection of papers or speeches? Share your suggestions below!

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon.

Dude was a natural history book REVIEWER. Never left England in his life. Editor got the wild idea to pack him up and send him to Borneo for a month.

It is a funny, delightful, very fast read. Could not put it down.

When he survived, got back, turned in the manuscript, the editor liked it so much, he packed him off to the Amazon for TWO months.

"In Trouble Again" is the 2nd book.

Third book was called "No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo" and it's not funny. At all. In the least little way, he and his crew were almost all killed in a nascent civil war.

4th book was "Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic" - embedded on a fishing boat. The literary equivalent of "Deadliest Catch".