When Bessels treated Hall, he gave him some medicines orally, especially cathartics; arsenic could have been mixed with such medicines. He also gave him injections of what he said was quinine; arsenic also could have been injected, ...
These statistics are supplied by the World Bank, Oxford Analytica, The Emnamist magazine, and an article by Yale University scholars Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy. See Connelly in the bibliography. “See Peter Gizewski's paper on ...
In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Ends of the Earth Alexander's epic quest continues through the heart of Asia and on towards the mystery of India.
Consisting of twenty-two essays recounting and reflecting on a lifetime of travel to the far and forgotten corners of our planet, the book offers remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements in locations as diverse as a Kamchatkan ...
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A remarkable tale of love and loss and finding something different' KATIE FFORDE 'Poignant and moving, this is 2021's standout love story so far' THE SUN ___________________________________________ Some love stories change us for ever.
In The Ends of the Earth, Robert D. Kaplan travels from the devastated countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands...
Fourteen stories deal with an accidental killing, the Vietnam War, a monstrous transformation, visible sins, dream worlds, addicts, and voodoo
Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources.
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Loaded with death threats, knife fights, a kidnapping or two, and a coded list that has the power to dismantle whole governmental hierarchies, The Ends of the Earth is a masterful work of historical cut-and-thrust that tests the bonds of ...
A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.
W. S. Merwin is widely acknowledged as one of the finest living poets in English.