Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
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From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at...
The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian and Caroline Eades
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With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a...
The Cosmopolitan Constitution
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Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty. It was the work...
The Handmaid's Tale - Season 1
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Based on the book by Margaret Atwood of the same name, the series is set in the near future in which...
Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and Their Marks
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Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London is one of the most important works of silver...
Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was W.G.
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On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field,...
The Seeds of Time
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In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of...
The Underground Railroad
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora...
I'd heard, and even knew a bit, about the former. The latter? Sad to say, not so much.
So, for my part, a little new knowledge is a good thing!
As the novel begins, Jack Lark is back in England after his exploits in America (during the Civil War) and Mexico of the previous entries; back where - I feel - he belongs (ummm, speaking internationally, that is, rather than his precise circumstances!) and running Victorian slumming 'tours' (for want of a better word) for the rich who have more money than sense!
I don't *think* I'm giving anything away when I say that one such tour inevitably goes wrong, leading Jack - and a few companions - to flee the country, travelling to Ethiopia to join the expedition against the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, more concerned with what they can purloin along the way than the rights and wrongs of the situation that led to the campaign in the first place!
All in all, another solid entry in the series: I'm looking forward to where Jack ends up next!