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Green Hills Of Africa
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Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he & his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in
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Green Hills Of Africa
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'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow & heavy-headed & enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush & P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher & the lion was going to the left on a run, a strange, heavy-shouldered, foot-swinging cat run. I hit him with the Springfield & he went down...'

Returning to his love of the African continent & its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill & excitement of the hunt for big game...

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Green Man Running
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It's August & Fun Week for the kids in Bethnel Green, where forty-one-year-old Dexter Bucknell, sometime publisher turned freelance copy editor, is hoping to inveigle his live-in lover, Moy, into marrying him & being a mother to his two young sons. While Moy escapes daily to her Mile End studio, Dexter is left at home to juggle work & debts & domestic chores. Further complicating their lives are Dexter's furiously letter-writing ex-wife, his mother, Moy's schizophrenic brother, & the unavoidable decision Dexter has to confront about his future. ...
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Green River Rising
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After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, & the prison falls into the hands of its inmates.

As the River sucks them all towards the abyss, Klein must choose either to claim his freedom & leave the ones he cares for to die, or risk everything & fight...

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Greenfly
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Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past & present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns & high cities of modern South America.

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Greenwitch
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In their desperate quest to find the grail, stolen by the forces of the Dark, the Drew children have returned to Trewissick. One night, in a strange ceremony, Jane watches the village women construct the Greenwitch: an ancient offering to the sea. Overcome by the Greenwitch ...
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Greenwitch
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In their desperate quest to find the grail, stolen by the forces of the Dark, the Drew children have returned to Trewissick. One night, in a strange ceremony, Jane watches the village women construct the Greenwitch: an ancient offering to the sea. Overcome by the Greenwitch ...
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Green Men & White Swans: The Folklore Of British Pub Names

Why do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes?

In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline

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Why do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? & why does the Green Man come in different shapes & sizes?

In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline Simpson explores the fascinating stories behind pub names, uncovering the myths & legends, euphemisms & wordplays, heroes & even ghosts that have inspired pub landlords over the centuries. Spanning beloved locals from the Three Witches to the Three Nuns, from the Ashen Faggot to the Twa Corbies, this book is both an intriguing insight into the history of the British pub & a captivating journey through the country

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