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ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN
by Donald Mackenzie. B&W photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Senate Trade Paperback, first printing. Reissue/reprint of 1922 original. Content: The history of early Britain from the Ice Age to the Roman invasion is a fascinating yet often neglected period. The long held assumption that the inhabitants of early Britain were isolated and uncivilized prior to the arrival of the Romans is in urgent need of revision. Mackenzie draws on a variety of archaeological and ethnographic sources to recreate the lives of the forgotten tribal cultures of ancient Britain. The role of Druidism, the megalithic monuments and the shell deities of British ancestors are explained in absorbing detail. The pagan tribes of Britain and Ireland are placed in the context of other civilizations in early Europe to which they bear a striking rememblance. [1 copy available]
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ART & SOCIETY IN ROMAN BRITAIN
by Jennifer Laing. Wonderful B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Sutton (UK) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: Fully illustrated, this book is the ideal introduction to Roman-British art, including mosaics, sculpture and architecture. The author discusses art patrons and craftsmen, the close relationship between the political and conomic history of the province and its art, and how Roman art responded rapidly to diverse influences. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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BEOWULF AND OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMS
Translated by Constance Hieatt. Introduction by A. Kent Hieatt. Condition: NEW 1988 Revised and Expanded Second Edition, second printing. Content: This book provides one of the best and easiest to read translations of the classic Saxon epic poem. Also includes other poems, genealogical tables, and bibliography. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE BEWITCHING OF ANNE GUNTER: A horrible and true story of deception, witchcraft, murder and the King of England
by James Sharpe. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Routledge hard cover & DJ (in mylar jacaket), first printing. Content: British historian Sharpe's meticulously detailed reconstruction of a sensational English witchcraft case resonates with the modern era and throws a floodlight on the psychology of fear, gullibility, scapegoating, conformity and self-delusion. In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter, during fits and trances in which she writhed, seemed to vomit and void such foreign objects as pins, accused three local women of bewitching her. Anne's supposed tormentors went on trial for witchcraft in 1605 (and were eventually acquitted). The trial was a dramatic affair, with Anne running through her repertoire of fits and symptoms, lying prostrate on the courtroom floor. Then Anne came under the personal scrutiny of notorious witch-hunter King James I, the king's physicians and Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Bancroft. She confessed that, under pressure from her father, gentry farmer Brian Gunter, she had faked her bewitchment to further his feud with the family of one of the accused witches, Elizabeth Gregory--a feud that began in 1598 at a football match. In 1606, father and daughter went on trial for false accusations of witchcraft before the infamous Star Chamber; regrettably, the disposition of the case is unknown. Sharpe views Anne's charade as a desperate attempt by an unloved, coerced child to gain her father's attention. His absorbing study is crammed with lore about demonic possession and the politics of exorcism, the European witch persecution craze, the bubonic plague of 1603 (which killed off one-fifth of London's population), demonological literature, Oxford (still a walled medieval city in 1600), daily life in English villages and the haphazard free-for-all of the early English criminal justice system. [1 copy available]
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THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH CLANS
by Iain Zaczek. Jacqui Mair Cover & color illustrations. Condition: NEW 2001 Cico Books (London) hardcover (pictorial boards), first edition, first printing. Content: The history of Scotland told by Clans and illustrated in color with paintings and tartans to match the Clans. Beautiful and informative book. Clans covered: Bowles-Lyon; Bruce; Campbell, Douglas; Graham; MacAlpine; MacBeth; MacDonald; MacGregor; MacLeod; Scott; Stewart; and Wallace. Pronunciation guide included. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BRASSES AND BRASS RUBBING
by Clare Gittings. B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1974 Blandford Press hardcover (pictorial boards -no DJ), third impression. Liight shelf wear. Content: About 8,000 monumental brasses exist in the churches of the British Isles, though these represent a small proportion of the total number laid down between 1250 and 1650. A brass memorial had three main advantages over stone or alabaster figures. Brass was generally cheaper (and smaller grave markings were possible); did not take us as much room as stone; and were not as easily defaced as stone. During the Victorian era, brass rubbing became a common and popular hobby - just as tombstone rubbings are in our own age. This book details the history and methods of successful brass rubbing. Quite interesting and even if you don't want to hunt down a brass memorial to work on, the history alone is fascinating. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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BRITISH DRAGONS
by Jacqueline Simpson. Notes to the second, revised edition. B&W dragon drawings. Condition: NEW 2001 Wordwsworth - Folklore Society Trade Paperback, second, revised ediiton. Content: From the cover: This book brings together the various mythic forms of the dragon as treasure guardian, voracious beast to be killed, the luck-giving snake and many others. All are drawn from the rich dragon folklore tradition of Britain including the Dragon of Wantley, the Lambton Worm and the Muckle Mester Stoor Worm. A full appendix and gazetteer of places with dragon legends and a full listing of dates relevant to British dragon lore accompany this revised edition. Also includes a history of dragons from England, Scotland and Wales. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD BURTON: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Knights to the West
by Edward Rice. Richard Burton photo cover. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Da Capo Press large Trade Paperback (664 pages), 4th printing. Pale tanning to page edges with very pale diagonal "near-crease" bottom front cover corner. Interior clean & tight. Content: "This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life adventures of Burton into a riveting tale...The last great word on the last great explorer of the colonial age." -Wall Street Journal. A New York Times best seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile; to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina; and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself. Couple this book with Mountains of the Moon (a suggestion of mine only). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE CROWN JEWELS & Coronation Ritual
by Col. Sir Thomas Butler. Beautiful color photos and artwork with a few B&W photos. Condition: UNREAD c. 1970-73 Pitkin Guides & Souvenir Books (UK) soft cover (stapled wraps), no printing given. Content: This is a wonderful detailed history of the English Family's Crown Jewels accompanied by even better color photos. Also covered is Coronation history and era artwork and B&W photos. Excellent for a souvenir book. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ENDURANCE: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing. B&W voyage photos & maps. Condition: NEW 1999 Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback, second edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear & light tanning to page edges. Content: In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in one of the ship's lifeboats. Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a white-knuckle account of this astounding odyssey. Through the diaries of team members and interviews with survivors, Lansing reconstructs the months of terror and hardship the Endurance crew suffered. In October of 1915, there "were no helicopters, no Weasels, no Sno-Cats, no suitable planes. Thus their plight was naked and terrifying in its simplicity. If they were to get out--they had to get themselves out." How Shackleton did indeed get them out without the loss of a single life is at the heart of Lansing's magnificent true-life adventure tale. [1 copy available]
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THE ENVIRONMENT OF BRITAIN IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D.
by Petra Dark. B&W photos, charts, & drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2000 Duckworth (London) Trade Paperback, first impression. Pale near-spider-crease top front cover - very light but there. Interior clean & tight. Content: This study of the relationship between human activity and environmental change from the Iron Age to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period brings together the results of the latest research in many fields to reconstruct changes in climate, sea level, soils and vegetation. The consequences of the major cultural changes of the first millennium are examined, including the Roman Conquest, the end of Roman Britain, and the Anglo-Saxon settlement, revealing the different ways in which human activity modified the environment. Copiously illustrated with photographs, maps and line drawings, the book will be of particular relevance to anyone with an interest in archaeology, history, geography, palaeoecology, botany, or environmental science. Preface List of figures 1. Reconstructing enviroments of the first millennium AD 2. Climate and sea level in the first millennium AD 3. The Iron Age context 4. The Roman period 5. The end of Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxon period to AD800 6. Late Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking Age 7. Discussion References Index [1 copy available]
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HENRY VIII AND HIS SIX WIVES
by Janet Hardy Gould. B&W photos & illustrations. Condition: NEW 2001 Oxford University Press (Bookworms Library, London) softcover, 1st ed, 4th impression. Content: Written for younger readers as an introduction to Henry VIII and his era - oh, and all those wives, too. Sure to lure kids to interest in history. [1 copy available]
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KINGS & QUEENS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES (Pocket Reference Book)
by Fanny Blake. Queen Elizabeth I cover art. Condition: NEW 2001 Paragon (UK) pocket-size softcover (self-jacket), first edition. Content: Beginning with Saxon England, the author details the kings & queens of each country with important dates, wives, children, and a description of their reign. Neat book. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE LAST LETTERS OF THOMAS MORE
edited by Alvaro De Silva. Condition: NEW 2001 Wm. B. Eerdmans Trade Paperback, second printing. Tiny, tiny edgewear. Content: De Silva has gathered together the letters Thomas More wrote to Margaret Roper, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Dr. Wilson, and others two years before his execution. Any More enthusiast will treasure this collection beyond measure, as it offers a clear window onto the soul of one of history's noblest figures. The statesman's plight becomes the reader's very own: confined in the Tower of London, awaiting the inevitable chopping block. What emerges most poignantly from the letters is More's selfless integrity as distinct from the stubborn individualism so often attributed to him. According to de Silva's own lucid and informative introduction, "More did not exhibit an individualism or an autonomy of the 'I' that has no room for anything else...he simply knew that to take the oath [to Henry VIII] would mean the loss of his own self, his own spiritual integrity." Endnotes elaborate on cultural, political, and religious allusions that would otherwise confuse one unfamiliar with the time period. Questions welcome. [2 copies availaable]
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THE LAST OF THE CHIEFS: Alasdair Randaldson Macdonell of Glengarry 1773 - 1828
by Brian D Osborne. Cover art portrait of Macdonell by Sir Henry Raeburn. Condition: NEW 2001 Argyll (Scotland) Trade Paperback with tiny, tiny edgewear. Content: Landowner, sportsman and soldier, Macdonnell epitomised the image of the Highland clan chieftain. In this first full biography, Brian Osborne has researched the man's character and examines hi life against the background of major change in post-Culloden Scottish society. Contradictory, confused and controversial, Macdonell had a high public profile and an aggressive, extravagant nature. He embraced the new (the conversion of the clan chiefs from paternalistic leaders to rent collectors, the coming of the sheep, the clearances and the transport revolution) yet he clung fondly to the ways of an old Scotland. [1 copy available]
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LAWRENCE: The Uncrowned King of Arabia
by Michael Asher. 2 B&W photo sections. Condition: NEW 2001 Overlook Press Trade Paperback [419 pages], first printing. Very slight "lift" to front cover. Content: Lawrence of Arabia began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle EAst, helped the Arabs gain their freedom after 500 years of domination by the Ottoman Turks, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refunsed any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the and the Royal Air Foce, in near obscurity. Another fascinating biography of one of the world's most fascinating characters. [1 copy available]
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GEORGE MALLORY
by David Robertson. 3 B&W photo sections. Foreword by Joe Simpson. Condition: NEW 1999 Faber & Faber Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: On 1 May 1999 an American expedition, searching on Everest for the bodies of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, found Mallory's body on a ledge at approximately 27,000 feet. The climbers carefully buried it, with appropriate ceremony, under large rocks at an undisclosed spot. They continued, without success, their search for Irvine's body and for the vest-pocket Kodak camera that might have yielded evidence that Mallory and Irvine attained the summit. George Mallory's disappearance on Everest in 1924 secured a place for him as one of the accepted heroes of the 20th century: it tended, at the same time, to overshadow the course of his life as a whole and to obscure the shape and complexity of his personality. In this first full biography, David Robertson - who has had access to all the family papers - follows Mallory's life from boyhood in Cheshire and at Winchester, through the years from 1905 to 1909 at Cambridge and the years of school mastering at Charterhouse. Then on to a happy marriage, service in the First World War, and participation in the Everest Expeditions of the Twenties. Two deep devotions - to the spirit of adventure and to his family and personal friends - were the mainsprings of his life. This book, first published in 1969, shows him not only as a mountaineer of extraordinary skill and action. It portraits a man who developed lively interests in the fields of literature, the arts and the main social and political controversies of his day, and one whose circle of friends included some of his most brilliant contemporaries. Above all, it succeeds in conveying Mallory's immense but unselfconscious charm, enhanced by transparent determination to find out what was right - a charm captivating to so many, and so very different people. [1 copy available]
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MURDER MOST ROYAL (Historical Fiction)
by Jean Plaidy (aka Victoria Holt, Eleanor Hibbert, & Philippa Carr). Cover painting by Warren Chang. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1993 Book of the Month Club hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Although unread, there is a gift inscription on the loose endpage and due to poor storage, there is a bit of "looseness" to the binding - not bad, but there. Content: This is the story of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard - 2 of Henry VIII's wives. One powerful king. Two tragic queens. In the court of Henry VIII, it was dangerous for a woman to catch the king’s eye. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were cousins. Both were beautiful women, though very different in temperament. They each learned that Henry’s passion was all-consuming–and fickle. Sophisticated Anne Boleyn, raised in the decadent court of France, was in love with another man when King Henry claimed her as his own. Being his mistress gave her a position of power; being his queen put her life in jeopardy. Her younger cousin, Catherine Howard, was only fifteen when she was swept into the circle of King Henry. Her innocence attracted him, but a past mistake was destined to haunt her. Painted in the rich colors of Tudor England, this book is a page-turning journey into the lives of two of the wives of the tempestuous Henry VIII. [1 copy available]
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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF BRITAIN
edited by Kenneth O. Morgan. Cover art is a J. S. Copley paining. B&W maps. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback, revised edition, 6th printing. The only problem with this book is the clipped bottom front corner through page 5 - why? who knows. Content: From the coming of the Roman legions to the present day, this book tells the story of Britain and her people over 2,000 years. The dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians, who explore the relationship between the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations in British history. [1 copy available]
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THE QUAKERS IN PURITAN ENGLAND
by Hugh Barbour. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Friends United Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: A discussion of the Quaker religion and its ties to Holland, Anabaptists, and its roots in Puritanism. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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QUEEN OF ENGLAND: The Story of Elizabeth I
by Helene Hanff. B&W illustrations. Condition: Good+ 1969 Doubleday hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (mylar jacket), first edition. This is an EX-LIBRARY book with all markings. Interior clean. B&W drawings by Ronald Dorfman. Content: A Young Adult biography of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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QUEEN VICTORIA: From her birth to the death of the Prince Consort
by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Dell paperback first thus, first printing. Small rubbings front cover with small edgewear, and oddly enough, it appears the back cover edges may have been "trimmed" - (binder's error?). Interior clean and very tight with pale tanning to page edges. Questions welcome. Content: Detailed life of England's Queen Victoria 637 pages) written so well it reads like fiction. [1 copy available]
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ROMAN BATHS; A View Over 2000 Years (Bath Archaeological Society)
by Barry Cunliffe. Beautiful color photos by Tim Mercer. Great color "cutaway" detailed room plans. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1993 Bath Archaeological Society large soft cover, no edition given. Pale diagonal crease bottom front cover corner plus a note written top back page. Tiny edgewear. Content: From the first century A.D. to the twentieth , people have been drawn to this place to seek comfort, cure and cleansing in the hot water that rises at its heart. What remains today is a remarkable sequence of ancient, medieval, and later structures that give testimony to the continuous use of hot water here over nearly 2,000 years. Perfect book for students of history and architecture. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROMAN BRITAIN (British Museum Book)
by T. W. Potter. Beautiful color photos plus B&W photos and drawings. Condition: NEW 1997 Harvard University Press softcover, second edition, first printing. Content: In AD 43 the emperor Claudius ordered an army of 40,000 to invade Britain. In AD 410 the emperor Honorius informed the population of Britain that they now had to defend themselves; there was no longer any Roman army to protect them, nor a Roman authority to administer the country. The four centuries during which the Roman presence in Britain rose, flourished, and then declined changed every aspect of life. Industry, trade, government, the arts and learning--even the physical appearance of the country--were all revolutionized, and the effects are still apparent nearly 2000 years later. This revised and updated edition of "Roman Britain" outlines with clarity and authority this critical period of history, and illustrates it fully with pictures of the surviving objects of the period, largely from the incomparable collections of the British Museum. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROMAN WOMAN: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain (Historical Fiction)
by Lindsay Allason-Jones. Condition: Very Good + 2000 Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. (London) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). If this book has been read, it was very gently. No flaws & interior is very clean & tight. The DJ has small edgewear top edge. Content: Historical fiction of the highest order. Excellent historical detail. The year is AD 133 in Eboracum (York). The story is told by Senovara, a member of the Parisi tribe whose home and customs have been little changed by Roman rule, but Senovara is also the wife of Quintus, a veteran of the 6th Legion Victrix. How she meets the challenge of adjusting from tribal life to Roman life is the basis of the novel. [1 copy available]
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THE ROSE AND THE THISTLE: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland
edited by Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood. Condition: NEW 1998 Tuckwell Press (Scotland) Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: The late medieval and renaissance period was one of profound ideological change in Scottish cultural history, in which ideas of sovereignty, religion, and national idenity were all subject to challenge and redefinition. These 8 essays focus on literature, festivities, documents and letters, and emphasise the significance of hitherto-neglected sources. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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SCOTLAND'S HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS (Historic Scotland series)
by Colin Martin. Detailed B&W photos, maps, and charts with a color photo section. Condition: NEW 1998 B. T. Batsford (UK) Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Six historic shipwrecks that occurred in the waters off Scotland. These disasters took place from the time of the Spanish Armada to the 18th century, and this is the mesmerizing tale of their rediscovery and the archaeological investigation on the sea floor. Each shipwreck is set in its wider historical context. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE SECRET DIARY OF ANNE BOLEYN (Historical Fiction)
by Robin Maxwell. Cover painting by Cibot, Anne Boleyn at the Tower, shortly after her arrest. Condition: NEW 1998 Scribner Trade Paperback, 9th printing. Light remainder mark bottom edges. Content: This novel supposes that Anne Boleyn, second wife to King Henry VIII of England, kept a secret diary that was delivered to her daughter, Elizabeth, upon her succession to the throne. Elizabeth was only three when Anne was renounced by Henry, tried for treason, and sentenced to death. Now, despite her queenly schedule, juggling affairs of state and heart, Elizabeth finds time to read her mother's story avidly and learns lessons that will secure her reign. It is an intriguing premise that knowledge of Anne's sad fate leads Elizabeth resolutely to defy the customs of her time and ignore her advisers' counsel and her suitors' pleas to marry. Remaining single and healthy, Elizabeth rules long and well. Filled with fascinating descriptions of court life and references to historical figures and events. [1 copy available]
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THE SECRETS OF THE AVEBURY STONES: Britain's Greatest Megalithic Temple
by Terence Meaden. B&W photos & astronomy charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Frog Ltd. Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny shelfwear. Content: Avebury, less than 20 miles from its more famous neighbor, Stonehenge, is rich in symbols linked to pre-Christian Goddess religions. This book reveals the wonders of the site, the largest and most complex prehistoric monument in Britain, through a lavishly illustrated guided tour encompassing history, archaeology, spirituality, and art. [1 copy available]
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SELKIRK'S ISLAND: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
by Diana Souhami. B&W photos. Condition: NEW Harcourt, Inc. hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket) first U.S. edition, first printing. Content: Daniel Defoe based his 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe on the trials and tribulations of Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk. Souhami draws on journals, maritime histories, and ship and parish records to detail his engrossing story. Born the seventh son of a poor cobbler, Selkirk fought violently with his brothers and dreamed about the "adventure, gold and escape" that the sea seemed to promise. In 1703, at the age of 23, he joined a looting expedition led by William Dampier, an experienced pirate who plundered the treasures of French and Spanish ships on the South Seas. But appalling conditions on the journey scurvy, hunger and a leaky ship (worms ate through its wooden hull) led to mutiny against the drunken and belligerent Dampier. After quarreling with a new captain, Selkirk (who was very belligerent himself) was put ashore on Juan Fernadez, an uninhabited island hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile. Souhami provides arresting descriptions of the island and the life Selkirk lived on it for more than four years, when hunger and thirst were "diversions" from his solitude. He survived, in part, by eating goats (with whom he also found sexual release), fish and vegetation. Rescued by another Dampier expedition, at first Selkirk was a wild man who had almost lost the power of speech. He did, however, recover from his ordeal: He took two wives, continued to sail and died at sea in 1721. Complete with detailed comparisons between Defoe's novel and Selkirk's life, Souhami's account is a well-researched investigation of a forgotten antihero. [One of the most interesting lives ever lived.] [1 copy available]
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THE SENSATIONAL RESTORATION (Indiana Masterpiece Editions)
edited by H. James Jensen. Cover illustrations: Charles II, Thomas Hawker, c. 1680. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Indiana Univ. Press large Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: English Restoration writing, known for its skeptical libertinism, addressed social mores, attitudes toward the arts, economic and political questions, social problems, and conventions of social graces - as well as youth, cynicism, religious and philosophical assumption, gender issues, and class and economic debates. This anthology begins with excerpts from Hobbes's Leviathan and includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry of the era. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SOUTH: The Endurance Expedition
by Ernest Shackleton. 16 pages of original 1914 expedition photos by Frank Hurley. Maps. Condition: NEW 1999 Signet paperback edition, 4th printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to rraverse the Antarctic continent. Optimism turned to horror as 28 men became marooned on a polar ice floe." Although there have been a number of new books and reprints recently focusing on the Endurance expedition, this is the one book everyone should read, Sir Ernest Shackleton's own story of the tragedy he turned into a triumph. Shackleton fully covers the expedition from its inception, through the loss of the Endurance, the stranding of the men on desolate Elephant Island, the majestic small-boat journey in search of rescue to South Georgia, the many attempts to evacuate the men from Elephant Island to the return home." [1 copy available]
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TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA: Three Years Exploring the Canadian Arctic, 1819 - 1822
by John Franklin. Condition: NEW 2004 Narrative Press Trade Paperback, no edition given. Tiny edgewear. Interior perfect. Content: Franklin was an officer in the Royal Navy (and later governor of Tasmania), but he was also one of the great polar explorers. This is the intimate narrative of his expedition in 1819. With only three companions, he explored the Canadian arctic from Hudson's Bay east to the Coppermine River and Bathurst Inlet. It was tough sledding: They were reduced to eating the leather parts of their clothes. Nevertheless, Franklin mapped 1,200 miles of coastline and logged 663 plants. Back in England he became a national hero. He died in 1845, while leading another expedition to the Arctic. Most interesting, at least to me, is the description of the Native Americans they encountered - with guns, tobacco, and porcupine quills - where did "isolated" tribes in the Arctic come up with these items? Read on! Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE TUDORS
by Christopher Morris. B&W photo section. Condition: 1973 Fontana/Collins (London) paperback in excellent condition. One tiny bit of edgewear - bottom front corner tip. Deep tanning to page edges. Very pale spine crease. If this was read, it was gently. Content: A scholarly, yet very readable, history of the English Tudor dynasty - which, of course, includes Henry VIII and all six wives and Queen Elizabeth. Genealogical tables included. Originally published in 1955. [1 copy available]
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WILLIAM WALLACE: Man and Myth
by Graeme Morton. Two B&W photo sections. Condition: Gently pre-read 2001 Sutton (UK) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), reprint. No major problems, just pre-read. Content: "The Wallace story is part of Scotland's imagined community.... We can't break the story because there is no story." In this densely written scholarly study, the author, a professor at Edinburgh University, examines the legends that have surrounded the exploits of William Wallace (1274-1305). Wallace is credited with liberating Scotland by defeating the English at Stirling Bridge (1297); his stature as the savior of Scotland has been reinforced by the recent film Braveheart. Later Wallace was vanquished by Edward I of England at Falkirk (1298). He lived as an outlaw and guerilla fighter until he was betrayed to the English, tried and bloodily executed in 1305. The author researched the very slim historical sources available and found problems with corroborating evidence. Much of Wallace's early reputation, for example, rested on the verse of "blind Harry," who wrote in the late 15th century. According to Morton, Harry's poetry has been romanticized and is almost certainly filled with errors. Ballads, songs and biographies of later centuries extolling Wallace's heroism are based on patriotism rather than truth. Morton also investigates how the myth of Wallace served both Scottish nationalism and socialism. In recent years the Wallace cult has grown, due to video games and Web sites. Although the author does not argue for completely abandoning national myths that cannot be proven, his hope for the Wallace mystique is that it is time to "lay his ghost to rest." The author even dedicates a chapter to "wallace.com." [1 copy available]
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