i thought this was a really interesting read and loved that it was a fictional book but based on the travels of the actual author. you could feels his eyes, and senses written in the subjects on the page and many a time i felt that the descriptions were so real and understood. and i thought this man knows this item or this place. it was so authentic and i love that. but also it being fiction meant we could still read it like a story and the author could write it with a bit more freedom. it was so interesting to learn of a time we all think we know alot of. but i think we only touch on the very good or very bad parts of that time in history and there was so much more undertone to that moment in time. and how too different cultures were dealing with the same period of time.
i found this book so intriguing and so immersive. i really enjoyed it.