Tyler Cowen certainly knows how to write snippets that grab my attention. In one of his regular “What I’ve Been Reading” posts he notes the following:
Paradise with Serpents, by Robert Carver. The only question is whether this is the first or the second best book on Paraguay in the English language; here is the other contender.
I hold no particular brief for Paraguay, but I now want to own the two best books in English on that largely neglected, landlocked country.