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  • Do You Think You're Clever?

    The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

    by John Farndon, Libby Purves ...
    What happens if I drop an ant?What books are bad for you?What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission ... Read more

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  • In the Cage

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Hesperus Classics
    In this small masterpiece of unrequited love, Henry James, as in his greatest novels, depicts a moral consciousness torn between emotional impulses and the demands of society. Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As she memorizes the messages ... Read more

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  • Mischief among the Penguins

    Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

    by H.W. Tilman, Tom Cunliffe ...
    Series Book 4 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.'So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ' Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double ... Read more

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  • A Little Learning

    Broodings from the Back of the Class

    by Libby Purves ...
    This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This collection of the best of her writing in the Times Educational Supplement covers - sometimes ... Read more

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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  • When Men & Mountains Meet

    Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 5 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. "Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death."'First published in 1946, the scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men and Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Greenland

    Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains

    by H.W. Tilman, Annie Hill ...
    Series Book 6 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of ... Read more

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  • In Mischief's Wake

    In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 12 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.'The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's account of the final voyage and loss of Mischief, the Bristol Channel pilot ... Read more

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  • Mostly Mischief

    Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

    by H.W. Tilman, Philip Temple ...
    Series Book 8 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.'Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic... ... Read more

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  • Mischief goes South

    Every herring should hang by its own tail

    by H.W. Tilman, Janet Verasanso ...
    Series Book 10 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.In 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the Arctic, Tilman and his pilot cutter Mischief ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.'So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude ... Read more

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  • High Mountains and Cold Seas

    The life of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator

    by J.R.L. Anderson ...
    Series Book 16 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton ... Read more

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