Eva Ulett
Island: How Islands Transform the World
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Island is a compact but dense study of ocean islands from cultural, biological, geological, literary, and historical perspectives. There is much interesting information ...Read Review
Captain’s Wife: Narrative of a Voyage in the Schooner Antarctic 1829, 1830, 1831
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This firsthand account by a woman of a voyage to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific is part of the publisher’s Seafarers’ ...Read Review
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
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The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review
The Anatomy of Death
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Doctor Dody McCleland returns to her London home from Edinburgh, having completed a course in autopsy surgery. Dody finds her sister Florence heavily ...Read Review
A Queen’s Journey
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In 1896, Boston freelance journalist Julius Palmer receives a summons from the deposed monarch of Hawaii, Lili’uokalani. When they’d first become acquainted ...Read Review
The Journey of Anders Sparrman
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The Journey of Anders Sparrman is a biographical novel of the life of the 18th-century naturalist, explorer, and physician. The narrative begins in ...Read Review
La Llorona, the Crying Woman
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Maya is born in ancient Mexico with a sunburst birthmark on her shoulder. She is declared to be a child of the Sun ...Read Review
The Soldier
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Devlin St. Just, the eldest though illegitimate son of the duke of Moreland, returns from years of war on the Spanish peninsula and ...Read Review
The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children
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Eleven tales are collected in The Life of Polycrates and other Stories for Antiquated Children, ranging in period from ancient Greece to the 20...Read Review
The Perfect Mistress
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Proper Victorian Harrison, Lord Montdale, is distressed to discover a memoir on the point of publication detailing Lady Hermione Middlebury’s salacious affairs. ...Read Review