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The life of English explorer William Cotton Oswell 1818 93 was marked by adventures and discoveries. At nineteen he left Essex for Madras where he worked for the East India Company and became a renowned elephant catcher. Due to poor health he was sent to South Afri... Lees meer.

The life of English explorer William Cotton Oswell 1818 93 was marked by adventures and discoveries. At nineteen he left Essex for Madras where he worked for the East India Company and became a renowned elephant catcher. Due to poor health he was sent to South Afri... Lees meer.

Letters written during the spring and summer of 1951 convey the artistic concerns of the two writers and share commentary on their poems and essays in progress.... Lees meer.

In 1853 the fabled Santa Fe trade drew a young Bostonian John Kingsbury to the dusty capital of America s newly-acquired New Mexico Territory. Junior partner of the prominent mercantile firm of Webb Kingsbury he remained in Santa Fe until 1861 and the outbreak of t... Lees meer.

Part of an eleven-volume set which contains all of Ricardo s published and unpublished writings and provides great insight into the early era of political economics.... Lees meer.

G. G. Stokes and Lord Kelvin helped bring about conceptual and institutional changes that transformed the science of physics. Indeed they and their Victorian colleagues constituted one of the most significant groups of scientists in the whole history of science. This c... Lees meer.

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Samuel Richardson 1689 1761 among the most important and influential English novelists was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist who thought long and hard... Lees meer.

The scenes amidst which Hume passed his boyhood and many of the years of his later life have subsequently in the light of a national literature become a classic land visited by strangers with the same feeling with which Hume himself trod the soil of Mantua. In his... Lees meer.

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The peculiar struggles of Canadian authors are writ large in the letters of Sinclair Ross. This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers publishers agents and editors asks why many Canadian artists especially thos... Lees meer.