I only managed to score two books at the Manila International Book Fair because of the thick crowd. Imagine last week’s Travel Fair, then multiply that by three or four. That’s a great thing, though, since it shows that book reading is still very much alive, especially among Gen Zs. Here's a bit about what I bought. According to its introduction, "Luzon and Mindanao" was first published in 1870, and written by Duc d’Alençon, a French traveler who was commissioned as an artillery man in the Spanish army.