A biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women.
The long term future of the Gulf Stream is now under threat; the Arctic ice is melting and the fear among oceanographers is that the cold water will not sink in the Norwegian Sea, thus switching off this transatlantic heat conveyer. This book explores the Gulf Stream, its past and its future.
On ten strolls through some of the most interesting areas of London, this work explores the literary landscape of the capital. It introduces Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, finds Virginia Woolf and Lady Ottoline Morell in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, and comes across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead.
Jerusalem is not an ordinary city. This book is both a portrait of a spiritual Jerusalem, and a recounting of the effect the city has on the spirit of one visitor who discovers its ongoing distress and, though sceptical of religion, he discovers some sort of spirituality in himself.
Gives a description of the individual steps of the "Odyssey", starting in troy and finishing in Ithaca. This title includes the countries of Turkey, Tunisia, Malta, Italy and of course Greece.
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