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...Flipping through it, I found its back pages contained an ad for a series of “Every-Day Help” handbooks, produced by the Walter Scott Publishing Co. of London....
...Cook’s Tahiti voyage was a joint expedition of the Navy and Royal Society in London, carrying scientists such as Joseph Banks and the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander....
...He was the first Polynesian to visit England and became an instant celebrity, meeting King George III, attending the state opening of parliament and travelling the country with Joseph Banks....
...“And then we realised that our butcher in Brook Green, HG Walter, was wanting to deliver meat, and we talked to our fishermen on the coast who said they were desperate to sell their fish....
...She was married to Joseph Albright, scion of a wealthy newspaper family, for 23 years. They brought up their three daughters here. “We were a normal family,” she says....
...When the botanist Sir Joseph Banks returned from his voyage with Captain Cook aboard the HMS Endeavour in 1771, he brought with him around 1,300 species unknown to Europeans and a number of sketches, colour...
...As Prior Walter, the Aids sufferer visited by the Angel, Andrew Garfield balances highly strung despair with mordant self-awareness....
...Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa , by Joseph Farrell, MacLehose Press, RRP£20, 352 pages...
...Such was his zeal for botany that Sir Joseph Banks, the swashbuckling naturalist who accompanied James Cook on his epic 18th-century voyage aboard the Endeavour, once gave his wife a brooch made from dried...
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...Both Scott and Macaulay were beneficiaries of a wave of writing that began in the later 18th century by the likes of the costume historian Joseph Strutt and the eccentric vegetarian radical Joseph Ritson...
...These botanists and plant hunters may not be as well-known as explorers such as Walter Raleigh, Captain Cook or David Livingstone but they seem to me equally noteworthy....
...She left London and a job at design label Joseph to move back home, where she met Edward, and she now runs a regional private equity association....
...He became Sir Joseph, friend and confidante of King George III, president of London’s Royal Society and one of the world’s most influential scientific men....
...His parents, Joseph Cranston and Audrey Sell, were both actors....
...So, enter the RSC, and the loud and living theatre in the form of video and film clips that play through the rooms – Harriet Walter wracked as Cleopatra, Antony Sher as Shylock, Paterson Joseph as Brutus...
...Good morning, New York… FT ALPHAVILLE A Basel III bunfight: On Wednesday, European finance ministers failed to agree legislation that would enshrine Basel III bank capital rules into law....
...Mr Jobs described Mr Ive as his “spiritual partner”, according to Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the Apple chief....
...Although he told Mr Isaacson that the new Apple chief executive Tim Cook was “not a product guy, per se”, he expressed confidence in Mr Cook’s quiet leadership and the team of talented executives under him...
...Title shamelessly stolen from Chris Cook, who’s applied the term to the IEA’s “easing” of tight oil markets by releasing reserves....
...Recipes you’ll want to cook, yes; but her writing style – precision with an almost retro gentleness – will seduce you completely....
...Even more gorgeous to read than to cook from....
...Michael Grandage, artistic director Donmar Warehouse.Joseph Greenwell, chairman, Ford of Britain. Terry Hill, chairman of Arup Group Trusts, for services to engineering....
...Mauchline Ware spice tower In the mid-19th century, snuffbox makers W&A Smith of Mauchline capitalised on a surge in tourism to Scotland – fuelled by Robert Burns’s poetry, Sir Walter Scott’s romantic novels...
...They asked the Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott, and caused a revolution in literature....
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