Pompeys Rise to the Premiership
This book, the first full-length study on the subject, explores Hemingway’s visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina and Venice.
The establishment of a national Natural History Museum was an idea opposed... Læs mere
Palaeontologist Richard Owen (1804–92) was superintendent of natural history in the British Museum and founder of the Natural History Museum. This 1868 work gives a... Læs mere
Palaeontologist Richard Owen (1804–92) was superintendent of natural history in the British Museum and founder of the Natural History Museum. This 1866 work gives a... Læs mere
Palaeontologist Richard Owen (1804–92) was superintendent of natural history in the British Museum and founder of the Natural History Museum. This 1866 work gives a... Læs mere
Including extensive illustrations of chelonian and crocodilian fossils from the Eocene, this book is a... Læs mere
Richard Owen (1804–92), the palaeontologist and anatomist, published this analysis of the comparative anatomy of the fossils of British birds and mammals in... Læs mere
Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but, as Owen's enlightening short study of Chaucer's Italian years makes clear, the poet's life was internationally eventful. The consequences have made the English canon what it is today.