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A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the British Imagination
by Marek Kohn
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- 2004
- ISBN
- 9780571223923
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$11.13
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Condition: clean copy.
Content: This is about more than the idea of evolution by natural selection. It is about Britain and natural history, impassioned beliefs and ideological struggles. It is a very human book about the Englishness of evolutionary theory and the lives and personalities of those who made it.
390 pages, notes, bibliography, index.
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Great British Journeys
by Nicholas Crane
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- 2008
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- 9780753824306
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$8.34
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Sound clean trade paperback the author follows in the footsteps of Gerald of Wales, John Leland, Thomas Pennant, HV Morton, C Fiennes, Gilpin, Defoe and William Cobbett.
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ELIZABETH AND MARY: COUSINS, RIVALS, QUEENS
by Jane Dunn
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- Published
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780002000406
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$7.95
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'Wonderfully readable and perceptive...Dunn's well-established gifts are a biographer are used here with remarkable sensitivity as she examines the upbringing of her twin subjects and shows how they were influenced by strikingly different experiences and mentors.' Miranda Seymour, The Sunday times.454 pages.Notes, select bibliography, and index
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Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian England
by Amanda Vickery
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- 2009-11
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- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780300154535
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$16.69
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'We see the Georgians at home as we have never seen them before in this ground-breaking book. Vickery can make a young wife's arrangement of china into an event of thrilling social and psychological tension. Behind Closed Boors' is both scholarly and terrifically good fun. Worth stay home for' The Sunday Times. 382 pages.Notes, bibliography, and index.
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