Where is it from?

[Zombie]

[Palantir]

lol - how confusing! The quote talks about the beach and the pic looks like it's the middle of the desert - maybe even outback Australia?

[Zombie]

No that was my little "visual joke" Iarwain - what happened / where'd they go??

[Zombie]

Maybe the usual suspects are waiting for some tasty clues? Oh alright then.

Clue - it's non-fiction

Now if you read carefully there's a lot of info there and you should be able to make a good guess as to what it's about

[Palantir]

Aha! Very appropriate Z.

 

Is it something to do with Dunkirk?

[Zombie]

Dunkirk was certainly "something big", but the history books I read didn't mention it being a spectator event, with barbecues and camp fires

[Palantir]

Barbecues? - that must be another clue.

[Zombie]

I must confess that was surmise on my part - but then who has camp fires without barbecues?

[Sympathia]

Oh I know where that's from, but I had to google to confirm so I'm not sure it counts

[Thorn Wilde]

Oh I know where that's from, but I had to google to confirm so I'm not sure it counts

 

I think you can google to double check.... If your guess was right, I don't see why it should be invalid.

[Zombie]

Come on Symp - before someone else works it out

[Sympathia]

The long journey home from the moon by Buzz Aldrin =)

Edited September 13, 2013 by Sympathia

[Zombie]

The full title is Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon - but Symp can have the cookie

 

The quoted lines describe the moment Buzz Aldrin was alone on the gantry near the top of the Saturn V - suited up and waiting for the lift to follow Armstrong and Collins to get into the tiny capsule right at the top - looking across the flat, pre-dawn landscape of Cape Canaveral and reflecting on the momentous journey to the Moon he was just about to make. Exciting stuff.
 

Your turn

[Sympathia]

Thank you! This one made me giggle like a schoolgirl when I read it:

 

"How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member."

[Sympathia]

For the record, it's not a dirty book

[Zombie]

I was thinking more Feminist Horror

[Sympathia]

Seems I'm the only one who enjoys reading stuff like this, hehe. Here, have a tip:

 

Written under a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII by two authors.

[Zombie]

Ah, so we're talking witches?

[Sympathia]

Could be

 

I'm baffled nobody here has read it actually

Edited September 16, 2013 by Sympathia

[Palantir]

Pratchett and Gaiman?

[Sympathia]

Nopes

[Zombie]

These are musty fusty dead guys - as in bones picked real clean?

[Sympathia]

These guys are very dead, book was written somewhere around 1484.

[Zombie]

After some googling I can only find Formicarius, but that seems to have had only one author and be earlier.

 

This is all light reading to curl up in bed with, Symp ...

[Sympathia]

I bought this book after seeing a documentary about witch hunts where it was mentioned that this "work" shaped the way we looked at women for hundreds of years to come.