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title: "Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire"
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# Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

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- **What is this?** Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by simon winchester
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## Customer Reviews

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    Fascinating journey with an interesting traveler
  

*by L***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2013*

This is a terrifically entertaining book.  I recently went to hear Simon Winchester speak about his latest book "The Men Who United the States" and was so captivated by his personality and the glimpses of his own life that he offered during the talk that I began searching through his other titles and decided that this one would be a book that I'd enjoy because it would take me to exotic locations, provide me with a history lesson at each location, and entertain me at the same time.  I was not disappointed.  Mr. Winchester has a keen eye for the small telling detail as well as for the larger picture.  Having visited some of the locations in the book, it was very apparent that the things he observed in 1984 when he wrote this book, in many instances, are still true today.  Many times the statement is made that on any journey -- many times it's the "getting there" that is half the fun and that's true in this book also because Mr. Winchester certainly had to expend a lot of effort and endured some very interesting circumstances while attempting to get where he was going.  Mr. Winchester isn't the first writer to try to determine why the British Empire melted away until now there are only remnants of it scattered around the world but I believe that he is the first writer to visit those distant and scattered and in some instances almost forgotten shores and to report back on what remains at the end of the day.

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    The Saddest Journeys
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2009*

Outposts is perhaps the oddest of Winchester's many books; surely it is the most melancholy. The three years of journeys that were required to complete the book--which took Winchester to dozens of far-flung destinations spattered across the globe--was apparently both exhausting and disheartening. Or, perhaps we should dispense with the word "apparently": Winchester makes his exhaustion (with the travel, with the topic) and his disappointment more than clear. His typical humor is largely absent and, when it is not, it is decidedly brittle. Indeed, in the end Winchester finds himself in a territory that is truly unfamiliar to him: that of acting as a political and cultural critic of his own country and his own times. The reader, meanwhile, realizing that Winchester completed the manuscript some 24 years ago and that the dire situations he described can only have gotten worse, feels Winchester's melancholy all the more. (In 2004, Harper brought out a new edition of the book with an updated introduction; I have not read it.) This is perhaps among the more obscure of Winchester's books; it is, in any case, one of the few whose destination is not the past. I have always had the sense that Winchester was more in his element when he was delving into history, but the present in Outposts seems a particularly unhappy destination.

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    Outposts
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2014*

I picked this book for adventure, perhaps travel, a bit of learning.I am so glad that my small wishes were so exceeded by the great and great many stories. There is too little space here to wax on,, so I must say that here is a book that should be required reading for most all of us out here, especially politicians, travelers, Naval persons, and all who might be, or are not.  It is a warm book you need for a long winter's night.And if you have lived in the West of the USA outside of all the cities, maybe on a ranch or farm or small struggling town of 287 souls, it is perfect, for the vast plains and desert are much like the great oceans.  A place for the mind, home for the soul and a purpose for the life too many others see as small.Wade RumneyCamano Island

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