A review by octavia_cade
Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa. Transl by Jules Verne

1.0

I'm sorry, but this is just monstrously dull. I am irked enough by the period racism and the equally period determination of one of the English characters to slaughter every animal that he comes across, for the sheer pleasure of killing, but the soporific triangles! I have been trying to read this book for a couple of weeks now, and I could only do a chapter or so at a time before my eyes began to glaze over. Six scientists measure a meridian in Africa, and while the second half is marginally more active than the first, the interminable detail of measurement in the first half just destroyed any hope of my actually enjoying the book.

Thank goodness it was short, though if I ever need a remedy for insomnia I shall know where to go.