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The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
by Dan Yaccarino
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Jacques Cousteau was the world’s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people’s living rooms. Now, in this exciting picturebook biography, Dan Yaccarino introduces young readers to the man behind the snorkel.
From the first moment he got a glimpse of what lived under the ocean’s waves, Cousteau was hooked. And so he set sail aboard the Calypso to see the sea. He and his team of scientists invented diving equipment and waterproof cameras. They made films and televisions shows and wrote books so they could share what they learned. The oceans were a vast unexplored world, and Cousteau became our guide. And when he saw that pollution was taking its toll on the seas, Cousteau became our guide in how to protect the oceans as well. |
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First English Language Edition
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Knopf USA
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2009
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40
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16.99 $
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ISBN :
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0375855734
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| Here is a lean, incisive biographical-critical book by one of our outstanding literary commentators. In compelling personal writing, White (Genet: A Biography) shows how one of the heroes of French culture, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), led a double life—in many forms. He who famously declared, I is another, abruptly abandoned the literary life, virtually as a teenager, for more than 15 years until his death. Unconventionally beautiful, from a provincial middle-class background, the lover of Paul Verlaine was bisexual and secretly craved conventional worldly success even as his aesthetic was in the Symbolist mode, portrayed by White as part shaman, part alcoholic and drug addict, part Catholic saint, Rimbaud remains a phenomenon in world literature. Included in this literary biography are superb translations by himself of works he is discussing and fresh insights into the destructive relationship between him and Verlaine in particular, as well as with other poets, family, friends and business associates. This is a disturbing and original portrait of a man White sees as a fallen angel who misbehaved even in hell. |
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Rimbaud
The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White &
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First English Language Edition
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American Publisher :
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Atlas & Co.
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2008
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Number of Pages :
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256
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16.32 $
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978-1934633151
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Memoirs of Montparnasse
by John Glassco & Louis Begley
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Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time. |
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First English Language Edition
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New York Review of Books
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2007
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Number of Pages :
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296
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14.95 $
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978-1590171844
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The author skilfully rounds up an eventful life that goes from religion (Talleyrand started off as a bishop) through to debauchery, statesmanship and political manoeuvring (he helped raise and later fell Napoleon) and diplomacy (he ended up as a hugely admired French Ambassador in London).
This is a scrupulously researched study of a fascinating man who played such a key role in French history. |
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Talleyrand
Betrayer and saviour of France by Robin Harris
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First English Language Edition
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John Murray
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2007
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448
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978-0719564864
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The life of J K Huysmans
by Robert Baldick
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Baldick´s landmark biography of the acerbic, contradictory and often controversial writer J K Huysmans first appeared in 1955, and has now been re-issued in paperback.
It maintains the original tripartite division of Huysmans´ writing career into Naturalist, Decadent and Catholic. However, this edition also contains the amendments and additions of the Huysmans scholar Brendan King, who takes into account new research.
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First English Language Edition
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British Publisher :
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Dedalus
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2006
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978-1903517437
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