Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction & pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements & his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals & birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians & a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Dickens, Darwin & Roosevelt. Since his death the memory of Waterton's personal eccenticities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas & work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age. ...

Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all
- until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone
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Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all
- until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS: THE DAREDEVIL DESPERADOS OF DESTINY

This fourth volume of Charlie Small's journal was found by one

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No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. . there was something so vivid in the telling, that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis.

The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. . not only that.. . even though Charlie Small is only eight, he must have lived for over four hundred years!


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No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. . there was something so vivid in the telling, that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis.

The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. . not only that.. . even though Charlie Small is only eight, he must have lived for over four hundred years!


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Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey
- & he's been trying to get back for over
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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PERFUMED PIRATES OF PERFIDY

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His

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Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey
- & he's been trying to get back for over
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