Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival… Not all the women were ‘port out starboard home’. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of ‘Queen Bees’.
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978147369902117/09/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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By looking at the work and methods of thirteen C20th anthropologists, LM shows how they ended by changing how we see ourselves as much as the 'primitive' societies they were studying.
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
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An account of the club, its remarkable members and their influence, since 1824. Scholarly and entertaining.
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The author's German grandparents were 'Mitlaufer' - those who went with the flow in the Third Reich. They just wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage... In this fascinating book... read more
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A fascinating examination of how the prevailing causes of death have changed through history. It is a story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, and is refreshingly optimist... read more
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
Hardback £25.00