travel reading - outbound flight

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[OT from cottage renovations]

Laura Hostetler: Quing Colonial Enterprise (ISBN 0-226-35421-0)

started this on Amtrak but got bogged down.  living proof that not every PhD thesis should turn into a book.  but it picked up at the end. 

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Christopher Benfey: the Great Wave - Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan (ISBN 0-375-75455-5)

another Christmas present to Taunton, which he has lent me back to read.  way good stuff.