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Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era
The Retreat of Reason
Indian Renaissance
The C.S. Lewis readers' encyclopedia
Munby, man of two worlds
Shelley's mirrors of love
Who Is a Dandy?
Magical and mystical sites
A description of the Western Islands of Scotland
The Celts
Wild fruit
British soldierflies and their allies
The enchanted land
Tourists with typewriters
Highways and byways in the West Highlands
Man versus society in eighteenth-century Britain: six points of view
Recent criticism of James Joyce's Ulysses
Public lives
Nelson
Governing medicine
Emotional resilience
Vision
LNER 150
Heroes & states
British intelligence in the Second World War
The Guinness book of British place names
The incredible War of 1812
The Lord Chamberlain regrets--
The Black Death
An index of characters in early modern English drama
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