Used price: $9.00
Buy one from zShops for: $13.09
The book not only is a faithful, easy-to-read republication of Cook's 1911 opus, it contains up-to-date data from well-established polar explorers and historians that validate Cook's original observations. It also confronts the Peary arguments (and what appear to be "dirty tricks") head-on, and emergesw victorious.
After reading the book, I was convinced that Cook was the first to attain the Pole and believe you will reach the same conclusion.
List price: $39.95 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $10.98
Collectible price: $26.47
Buy one from zShops for: $10.98
Used price: $154.80
Collectible price: $215.00
Buy one from zShops for: $154.80
Any physician involved in preparation for these agents should have this book. Please note, this is not a basic or public interest book, but a serious scientific review.
List price: $14.00 (that's 20% off!)
Used price: $32.47
Buy one from zShops for: $31.87
List price: $14.95 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $23.96
Collectible price: $21.13
Used price: $6.77
Collectible price: $18.52
Buy one from zShops for: $6.00
Her life with a married man created a Victorian scandal, yet by the time of her death in 1880 she was England's most celebrated author visited even by Queen Victoria's daughters.
This biography is a thorough, accessible and engrossing book. Author Karl is a fan of Eliot's yet hides none of her blemishes. While he generally refuses to speculate on a lot of Victorian gossip regarding her life, he at times annoys the reader with some unwarranted attempts to psychoanalyze her (I do get tired of the injection of Freud into literature). The slowest parts of the book deal with her frequent trips to Europe. We learn what she did on Tuesday in Berlin, and then her activities in Hamburg on Wednesday. While I realize that the recording of such information is important in providing a fairly complete detail of her life, I tend to nod a bit at the lengthy reports of her travels.
Historically we are blessed with a huge number of extant correspondence of Eliot. The author makes good use of these letters, yet the book does not turn into an epistolary work i.e. a book of nothing but verbatim letters.
One of my purely personal problems with the book was that I have not read all of Eliot's novels. Mr. Karl, of necessity perhaps, relates much of the plots of her books, and thus creates a real spoiler for the novels that I haven't read. That's my problem, of course, and not the author's.
It would seem that people today are probably unaware of this important author who was known throughout England during her writing lifetime. Her novels and her life are an important part of the literary canon. I heartily recommend this well crafted book
Used price: $1.77
Buy one from zShops for: $3.40
Used price: $0.59
Collectible price: $4.00
Buy one from zShops for: $4.99
lived as a child amongst revolutionaries in Poland,
but read about the sea and dreamt of wild adventures.
He watched his mother die in exile in Siberia
and his father follow her to the grave soon thereafter.
Seasons of the mind can be taught to rule the heart.
Joseph Conrad survived a life of tedium and hair breadth escapes at sea,
but dreamt of understanding what drives and saddles men's souls.
He is rumored to have killed a man in a barroom brawl
and then escaped to England to take on a new identity.
There is very little time for true understanding.
Father and author Conrad lived quietly in a London suburb
and wrote in epic stretches that left him sleeping on the floor.
One day he emerged from his writing studio
and did not recognize his own son in the hallway.
Life stumbles on through fields of crowded emotion.
There is no loss of honor in fearing life's many deaths.
Used price: $36.77
A must have!
Used price: $0.01
Collectible price: $0.05
Buy one from zShops for: $5.36
Generally a well organized and written book!