M. G. Lay

A book on a fascinating area that affects us now and how previous civilisations developed. Truly interesting. It would receive 5 stars but for the intellectual arrogance, or possibly idiocy, in coverting every measurement to metric without providing the original measure in brackets.

For those of us who read other histories or who are more familiar with the Imperial measurements this seems just sloppy/arrogant to leave us mentallyy scrambling every time a mile or railway gauge is show more mentioned.

Considering it is published by Rutgers based in the US where Imperial IS the common measure it seems doubly annoying they did not require dual measurements. show less