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A Hippopotamus in Victorian London
In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain s...
Exotic Animals in Victorian England
This book asks an important question: If you were born in rural England in 1837 and died in 1901 and never travelled more than thirty miles in any dir...
The Victorian craze for marine life
โFor the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enc...
This title was first published in 2002. "Moderatus" was an Elizabethan romance, probably the first published work of the 16th-century Welsh gentleman ...
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Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London
Rossetti's Wombat tells the story of Top, a wombat who belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti for a few months in 1869. The boo...
A fascinating account of the life of the first hippopotamus to be exhibited in the Regents Park Zoo in London, and probably the first hippo to be exhi...
Art in the Library
The Atheist Coloring and Activity Book provides a broad though compact course on the world view of Atheism. While adhering to the format of a coloring...
German Mariners at Berrima 1915-1919
This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position, it asks the question, 'What...
Discerning the Future of Anglicanism
Fresh perspectives on a wide range of hotly debated issues-feminism, homosexuality, names of God, authority of scripture, liturgical renewal, social g...
Even though it had its share of celebrities, in the 1940's there were quite a few council flats, building sites, and bombed houses punctuating the str...
Paper Presented at a Workshop on the Measurement of Health Transition Concepts, London, June 1989
A Photo Journey Through West Virginia
This book is a photographic journey through West Virginia showing her scenic beauty, landmarks, and people. It captures a snapshot of the state on her...
30 Years of Deceit (1988-2018)
a popular account of the Lockerbie disaster, the trial of Abdelbasset Al Megrahi, and the deception that was involved in blaming Libya for the terrori...