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A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person […]
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A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
£14.95New from EnvelopeBooks – an important study in social anthropology A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean. The Andamans were […]
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Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
£24.95Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
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How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
£34.95Award-winning news photographer Roger Allen had often taken animal photos, but never grasped how badly humans can mistreat other sentient beings. Then he met Mely, an orangutan that had been chained all its adult life to the verandah of a waterfront house in a remote part of Borneo. They met, touched hands, and in an […]
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Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
£19.95How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took […]
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Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
£22.95On her deathbed, Charles Dickens’s wife asked her daughter to give his letters to the British Museum “so the world may know he loved me once”. That the world might doubt it is not a surprise. In his later years Dickens built a wall in their bedroom to keep her out, forced her to visit […]
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The Attraction of Cuba
The Attraction of Cuba
£14.95Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality. There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes […]
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The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
£19.95Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime. When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
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The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
£18.95We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily […]
