Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World
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In 1673, two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur...
Last of the Few: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won it
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After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated...
Letts Rip!
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Throughout the New Labour years - that decade of deceit, that era of wretched wriggle - the Daily...
Nazi Crimes and the Law
Nathan Stoltzfus and Henry Friedlander
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This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the...
Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885
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The landmark book provides a clear understanding of the ways in which landed society functioned, and...
Rhododendron
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Has a group of plants ever inspired such love in some, and hatred in others, as rhododendrons? Their...
Sea Anemones and Corals of Britain and Ireland
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The waters around Britain and Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and some of the...
Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd
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Christopher Lloyd was the grand old man of British gardening and gardening writers. From 1989 until...
Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay
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In the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British home was so labour intensive that...
The Best of Kipper Williams: All in Tents and Porpoises
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Kipper Williams is one of Britain's most adaptable and popular cartoonists, best-known for the...