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On A Mission
A notable bicentenary in 2013 is that of the birth of David Livingstone. I wrote about Livingstone almost exactly two years ago (without noticing at the time that his birthday was on 16 March). Since then, we have published more … Continue reading
A Fortune in the Tea-Leaves
It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least by gardeners of my acquaintance) that Euonymus fortunei and its various cultivars have got to be the most boring plants ever to blight the landscape. (Even the thought of the coyly named … Continue reading
Archibald and Alicia
It is, I think, fairly uncommon (though I haven’t researched the topic in detail!) for a husband to appear in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography only as an adjunct of his wife. (Reverse examples are of course innumerable.)
Posted in Anthropology, History, Travel and Exploration, Women's Writing
Tagged Alicia Little, Archibald Little, Canton, China, foot-binding, steam boat, Tibet, Yangtse
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The Last Emperor’s Tutor
If you’ve seen Bertolucci’s film, The Last Emperor (crude dubbing, wooden acting, stunning cinematography), you’ll probably remember the scene of astonishing beauty in which a small, confused, petulant child, bundled in stiff robes, runs outdoors from a darkened hall to the … Continue reading
Hunting, Shooting and Fishing
A number of the studies of natural history we have reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection have been by clergymen – with Gilbert White of Selborne as the archetype. John Ray, John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick, John Fleming and William … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, History, Life Science, Travel and Exploration
Tagged botany, Canada, China, E.H. Wilson, fish, game, Trumpton, wildfowl
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