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W. B. Carnochan
In contrast to the heated polemics and hyperbole of current debates concerning the role of higher education in the United States, this book seeks to bring sense to a volatile…
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This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke’s claim (which was accurate) to have discovered the source…
From the eighteenth century onwards, travelers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with the Abyssinia. This book considers the…
Satire, long the most neglected of literary genres, has begun to claim its share of critical attention. And no book in the satiric tradition has generated more controversy that Gulliver’s…