Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Glass eels are sexually undetermined

Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life

How sweet it was

And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope--the haunted house

and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - New York Public Library

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Glass eels are sexually undeterminedA beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half millennium" now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial