What? By Mark Kurlansky
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. by Mark Kurlansky - a book that strikes me as a poorly thought out, badly executed, glaringly superficial look at the nature of human inquiry, that is all the more disappointing because Kurlansky is capable of writing excellent books, having in the past delivered some brilliant non-fiction and some pretty decent fiction to boot. It's an incredibly slim volume, consisting of only 77 pages of content typeset in a large font size on pages with wide margins, interspersed with woodcut illustrations and including 20 chapter breaks, for which the publishers are charging £9.99. The book begins and ends with beautiful quotes from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet that clearly show Kurlansky is capable of deeper thought than this flippant guff.
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