Author: Paul Hulton
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000153533
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This work outlines the life of James Bruce of Kinnard, and Luigi Balugani and his relationship with James Bruce.
Author: Jane Aptekar Reeve
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728396263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
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This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Stuart C. Munro-Hay
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An annotated bibliography of some 600 resources on aspects of the country including history and prehistory, archaeology, politics, famine, travel, language, and foreign policy. Includes sections listing journals and conference proceedings, bibliographies and reference works, and dissertations and theses, plus a chronology, a list of rulers, and an introduction outlining the country's history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author: Gavin D. R. Bridson
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Author: Diane M. Bridson
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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"Contains chapters on the conservation of herbarium sheets and on the collection and curation of the larger algae. The chapter on computers has been completely rewritten and much enlarged, as have those on pests and treatments, larger fungi and economic botany. The sections on liquid preservatives and on pesticides have been revised to take into account new health and safety regulations. An essential reference work for herbarium managers and technicians and for all those who are involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections." --NHBS Environment Bookstore.
