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Joe Gould's Secret (Vintage classics) by Mitchell, Joseph at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0099772310 - ISBN 13: 9780099772316 - Vintage - 1998 - Softcover
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the Inside Flap: A VICTORIAN CELEBRATION PARLOR CATS As with the Queen, so with the Empire: when Victoria revealed a love for cats, her people elevated their tabby mousers to a position unrivaled since ancient Egypt. Celebrating that great era of ailurophilia are Cynthia Hart and John Grossman, the arbiters of Victoriana whose books include A Victorian Scrapbook, Joy to the World, and Forget-Me-Nots, as well as the best-selling Victoriana Calendar. Peeking out from lushly layered collages, here are endearing Victorian cats drawn...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. About the Author: A former senior editor at Outside magazine, Webster has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. From the Inside Flap: and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backy...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. About the Author: In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Eileen Welsome has received the George Polk Award for National Reporting and The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, among other honors. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From the Inside Flap: t wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on the top-secret bomb-building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and de...
Charlotte was the first - wildly beautiful, wildly frustrated- who married her soldier husband solely to escape from the claustrophobic respectability of Victorian life in Richmond. When she reached the British lines in Kabul she was bewitched by the exotic world of Afghanistan and by Alexander Bewick, the scandalous adventurer who aroused an instant response in Charlotte's rebellious heart. As the city of Kabul was turned into a hell of bloodshed, Charlotte was forced to choose between her devoted husband and reckless lover. Alexandra lived in the shadow of her legendary grandmother Charlott...