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When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory sparked a ...
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Using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and the orangutang at London Zoo - this title illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist an ...
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Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.
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Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as a guide to reading poetry. Here, she uses poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey, through literature and through life. In an increasingly unstable world, she argues, we need poetry t ...
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When attractive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English ...
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* A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger. *'Lyrical and deeply impressive ... a gripping and informative book' GUARDIAN
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* A compelling and evocative novel about love, family and betrayal from the author of TIGERS IN RED WEATHER
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Sir Walter Ralegh, poet, scholar, soldier and explorer, travel-writer, historian and favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth-I, was born in Devon around 1552, knighted in 1584, imprisoned twice in the Tower of London, where he wrote his History of the World , and executed in 1618. ...
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Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within, and looks at the meaning of all human suffer ...
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A collection of verse by the author of Summer Show and Angel . Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages punctuate a series of love poems.
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