In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme & bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail
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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way. This novel, which has scences of comedy & even farce, is a commentary on both certain aspects of feminisim & certain aspects of capitalism in Edith Wharton's time. The novel makes a fitting companion to THE AGE OF INNOCENCE & THE HOUSE OF MIRTH & shows Wharton to be one of the greatest American novelists. ...

On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred & twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley & his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves & hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave.

The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left & they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured & the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation
- from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself
- spellbound during the following winter.

This is the true story of the voyage & the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.





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On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred & twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley & his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves & hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave.

The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left & they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured & the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation
- from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself
- spellbound during the following winter.

This is the true story of the voyage & the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.





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On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred & twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley & his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves & hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave.

The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left & they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured & the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation
- from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself
- spellbound during the following winter.

This is the true story of the voyage & the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.





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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.

As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.

As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

This journal will be the perfect companion on any trip to the locations visited in The Da Vinci Code.

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