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  • Lemprieres Dictionary
    Lawrence Norfolk
    As the seventeenth century opens a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men women and children. Almost two centuries later in 1788 John Lempri re published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the...
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  • The Popes Rhinoceros
    Lawrence Norfolk
    In February 1516 a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope’s Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India from a ...
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  • Lempriere’s Dictionary
    Lawrence Norfolk
    In 18th-century London, a young writer of a classic mythology dictionary finds himself heir to a mystery--one that leads to a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the rich East India Company. As he begins to untangle years of deceit, people begin to die in ways that mirror the very myths he has been researching. A W. Somerset Maugham Award winner. ...
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