1.0

"His facts are extremely interesting; his presentation of them is clumsy and tedious." There is a painful irony in Adams quoting the NYT critiquing Bingham's writing, when Adams' writing suffers from the same affliction, and the Audible narration only makes it worse. As other reviews have said better, it's icky how unenlightened this book is with regard to native culture and peoples and white colonialism and privilege. It's amazing that this book manages to take such a fascinating topic and turn it into such boring, off-putting drivel.