The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

Great book, some not so great readers

(3 stars)

Lee Weber

As a passionate reader of Asian History I did enjoy the narrative and the stories told here. But I had to skip some chapters (specially those read by Brianna) out of pure desperation. Her reading speed falls so behind what's natural that I find myself focusing more and more on the silent spaces between words and sentences. I generally enjoy slow paced readers since I mostly listen to these audio books right before bed and find them relaxing. But I'm sorry to say some of these readers ruined half the book for me.

very interesting

(4 stars)

Basquetteur

From the Publisher's Note: "The scope of " The World's Story " is briefly suggested by its subtitle, " A History of the World in Story, Song, and Art." It is a series of selections from the best prose literature, the most inspiring poetry, and the most striking examples of historical painting, made with a view to obtaining, from these three sources, a comprehensive and reasonably complete presentation of the world's history, from the earliest recorded events to the present time. It aims to utilize the writings of the best authors and the paintings of the greatest artists to present a series of pictures, each interesting and instructive in itself, and constituting as a whole an illuminating review of the most important events of the world's history. Art is relied upon to furnish its quota of material in precisely the same manner as literature."

(5 stars)

Kevin Eastwood

love this book man the whole series in fact but everyone knows Confucius ent the most famous person ever to come out of China, it's Jacky Chan! Apart from that the rest is all correct as far as I can tell. lol

(3 stars)

moe

I’m sorry, but parts of this are unlistenable