A Pirate of Exquisite Mind : The Life Of William Dampier, Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer by Diana & Michael Preston
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A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer. William Dampier, (1651- 1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined ...Show more
The Queen's Conjuror : The Science and Magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin Woolley
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Based on Dee's secret diaries which record his experiments with the occult, Woolley's book tells the story of one man's struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of the scientific age at the point it arose: the choice between ancient wisdom and modern science as the path to truth. Hardcov ...Show more
Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the nov ...Show more
Murray Riverman - The Life of George Freeman by Joe Andersen
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Patrick White - Letters by David Marr (ed.)
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AN INTRODUCTION TO CHARLES WILLIAMS by ALICE MARY HADFIELD
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URSA MAJOR : A STUDY OF DR JOHNSON AND HIS FRIENDS by C E VULLIAMY
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MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE TOMB by FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
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E. M. Forster : A New Life by Wendy Moffat
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One of the great mysteries in the life of E. M. Forster (1879-1970) is why, after the publication of "A Passage to India" in 1924, he never published another novel although he lived to be 90. In Wendy Moffat's biography, based on a lifetime's dedication to her subject, we gain extraordinary insights int ...Show more
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH : HIS LIFE, HIS POLITICS, HIS ECONOMICS by RICHARD PARKER
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