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Category Archives: Travel and Exploration
Two Roving Englishwomen
Even in these days of avalanches of instant information, the CLC team occasionally comes across an author about whom we cannot find out anything except that s/he wrote a particular book and therefore may be presumed to have flourished at … Continue reading
Ruthin’s Most Famous Son
I have been to Wales on only one occasion, and that was a day trip to from Cambridge to St Asaph in my relatively sprightly youth. I feel that this did not really do justice to the Principality, and that … Continue reading
Emerging From The Archives
Just back from Venice, where a surreal moment was provided by a group of Estonians in full art-folkloric fig in Campo S. Stefano, where presumably they had been singing and/or dancing on a temporary stage raised against the church wall. Him Indoors … Continue reading
A Jungle Hero
Circumstances prevented my watching the first episode (of two) of ‘Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero’ on BBC 2 last night, though I hope to catch up. Bill Bailey (for our international readership) is a British comedian, and his ‘Jungle Hero’ is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution
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Native Americans, North and South
There is a very interesting (small, but perfectly formed) exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery in London until 23 June. It consists of some of the portraits painted by George Catlin of the ‘Indians’ of both the North and … Continue reading
