{"id":4053,"date":"2012-03-30T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:25:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T03:25:29","slug":"1616-review-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/1616\/1616-review-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"1616 review recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"scribeSome highlights (well, hey, the topic interests me):<\/p>\n

Cleveland Plain Dealer\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/em>(March 29, 2012)
\n<\/strong>“Thomas Christensen’s\u00a01616<\/em>\u00a0is a delight, an adventure, a reading and visual treat of the first order. Once you hold it in your hands, and the sumptuous, well-chosen illustrations fall open, its $35 pricetag will seem like a bargain.”
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\nMaclean’s Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Canada; April 2, 2012 issue)<\/strong>
\n” Where Christensen shines … is in his tales of individuals incongruently ricocheting around this newly opened world.”
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\nEast Bay Express<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0(March 21, 2012)<\/strong>
\n” A swashbuckling, stargazing, witchcrafty, ’round-the-world-in-three-hundred-plus-pages historical adventure disguised as an art book,\u00a01616: The World in Motion<\/em>\u00a0is simply dazzling.”<\/p>\n

San Jose Mercury News\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/em>(March 3, 2012)<\/strong>
\n“This thoughtful, beautifully illustrated book examines the key events in art, science, war and politics, as well as mass migrations, new modes of trade and women’s emerging roles.“<\/em><\/p>\n

ForeWord Magazine<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Spring 2012 issue)<\/strong>
\nA “fresh, deeply researched and thoughtfully composed window back in time.”<\/p>\n

Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0(starred review, December 12, 2011; also named one of\u00a0PW<\/em>‘s top ten history books for the season)<\/strong>
\n“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616.”<\/p>\n

Kirkus Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(November 15, 2011)<\/strong>
\n” Well-researched and entertaining … a unique reading experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some highlights (well, hey, the topic interests me): Cleveland Plain Dealer\u00a0(March 29, 2012) “Thomas Christensen’s\u00a01616\u00a0is a delight, an adventure, a reading and visual treat of the first order….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}