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  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 3
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh, and from at least the late 1930s onwards she was not only passionately interested in Scottish landscape and history but involved in Scottish politics and current affairs. A first glance at the pieces collected here might suggest that her Scotland comprised only the West Highlands which she knew so well. Much of her journalism stems from he...
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    32,24 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 4
    Naomi Mitchison
    The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and because it’s ’simply not interesting’. So says Alfred Dube, Botswana’s High Commissioner in London. As a generalisation, he may be right. But turn the coin and realise that many thousands of people in Britain, with no direct contact with this country, owe their knowledge of it to a single...
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    32,29 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 5
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison travelled extensively outside Britain, writing freely about her adventures and tribulations, her disturbing experiences and those of others. This volume includes autobiographical material and newspaper reporting, as well as more detached observations, written from 1929 through to the mid-1980s, and covers every continent except South America. Geographically, the...
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    32,20 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 6
    Naomi Mitchison
    With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that political thinking, anecdote, frustration and reflection appear across the spectrum and therefore are not exclusive to this volume.Those brought together here - dating from as early as 1923 in Fascist Italy, through more than 60 years, to the lack of women in the U.K Parliament - show...
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    32,39 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 7
    Naomi Mitchison
    This volume covers from 1935 to 1993, over a wide range of topics. Often serious, with passion, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, Mitchison looks at issues of the day, and reflects, usually critically, on how society is being affected by current affairs, usually for the worse.Articles rarely confine themselves to a narrow perspective.The volume includes the entire text of the extended...
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    32,10 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 1
    Naomi Mitchison
    Among over eighty articles in this volume are Mitchison’s earliest known published non-fiction, her thoughts on motherhood and children - and her contributions to the debate on contraception, including the pamphlet 'Comments On Birth Control' published separately in 1930.As well as the text of her editorial for the collection of essays 'An Outline for Boys and Girls and their P...
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    32,28 €

  • Black Sparta
    Naomi Mitchison
    Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew on dust as the author tells of Pindar’s poetic adventure into Thessaly’ TimesKeywords: Pindar Thessaly Whiff Thyme Admirable ...
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    43,70 €

  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
    Naomi Mitchison
    Rich and frank in passions, and rich, too, in the detail which helps to make feigned life seem real.’ Times Literary SupplementKeywords: Times Literary Supplement Passions ...
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    35,47 €