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I'm interested in oddly specific non-fiction books. Never generals, encyclopedias, overviews... but books on very specific topics that typically only someone who is already well versed in that topic would read.

So what have you read that fits the bill? I finished the pic related recently, and soon I will read "Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes" by Paul Humphries

>> No.15802575

Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis
The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
The Life Story of the Fish: His Manners and Morals by Brian Curtis
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty; Its Cause and Consequences by John Barrow
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
The Bible in Spain by George Borrow

>> No.15802947

>>15802575
>The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
I'm already glad I asked, thanks for the ideas anon

>> No.15802956

>>15802442
Anyone got any good books on the Arctic expeditions of the 1800/1900s such as the Endurance?

>> No.15803021

>>15802442

Lmao that's a great hobby. You'll be trivia king.

Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660 by Robert Parthesius

The First Modern Economy by Jan de Vries

Henry Darger : In the Realms of the Unreal by John M Macgragor

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>>15802442

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>>15802442

The Social Life of Coffee explores the role coffee houses played in the change of social paradigms in post-restoration England.

>> No.15803816

>>15802442
Sounds like you missed the Princeton press sale, didn’t you lad? They had quite a few of what you’re looking for, and at decent prices.

>> No.15804048

>>15803038
what about a book on tea bro

>> No.15804108

>>15803816
I am not looking to buy...

>> No.15804159

>>15802442
An history of rhythms in the middle ages, Jean Claude Schmitt

>> No.15804186

>>15802956
Helge Ingstad’s books are quite popular here in Norway.

>> No.15804273

>>15804186
>Helge Ingstad
Kek

>> No.15804280

>>15804273
w-what?

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>>15804280

>> No.15804320

>>15803021
>You'll be trivia king.
No he won't because for that you need breadth not depth

>> No.15804334

>>15804299
That image gives me both a feeling of calmness and anxiety

>> No.15804422

>>15803038
I have a fond memory remember reading that at uni

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>>15802442

I used to recommend this book ironically but I can feel myself inching closer every day to buying the damn thing.