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Eighteenth-Century Reading Room
Item of the Day: Cook’s Voyages (1777)
Full Title: A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s [...]
23/01/2008
Item of the Day: Cook’s Voyages (1777)
23/01/2008
A.S.Byatt – Interview
By LAURA MILLER in Salon
A.S. Byatt could be the patron saint of bookworms. She describes her often-bedridden child self as having been “kept alive by fictions” — mostly the novels of Dickens, Austen and Scott. Among the first women admitted to Cambridge, she has always been a “greedy reader,” who weaves her many interests [...]
