With an Introduction by David Amigoni Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 & 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty & sublimity which language could barely capture Words he said were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions the sensation of delight which the mind experiences' Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts & interiors of South America to South Sea Islands Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged but never once overcome In addition The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful speculative mind at work posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure animal forms anthropology & the origins of life itself ...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Janet Brown & Michael Neve When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831 Charles Darwin was twenty-two & setting off on the voyage of a lifetime His journal here reprinted in a shortened form shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology natural history people places & events Volcanoes in the Galapagos the Gossamer spider of Patagonia & the Australasian coral reefs
- all are to be found in these extraordinary writings The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution & the most controversial book of the Victorian age The Origin of Species This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form In their introduction Janet Brown & Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought & work & this edition also

Includes:: notes maps appendices & an essay on scientific geology & the Bible by Robert Fitz Roy Darwin's friend & Captain of the Beagle Charles Darwin (1809-82) a Victorian scientist & naturalist has become one of the most famous figures of science to date The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged & contradicted all contemporary biological & religious beliefs If you enjoyed The Voyage of the Beagle you might enjoy Darwin's On the Origin of Species also available in Penguin Classics


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In 1271 17-year-old Marco Polo started on a journey to China with his father & older brother After a long & grueling journey that led through Jerusalem & Mesopotamia & over the " Silk Road" they reached the court of Kublai Khan in 1275 In The Voyages of Marco Polo players recreate this journey with each player having a different character & special power in the game The game is played over five rounds Each round the players roll their five personal dice & can perform one action each turn with them The five main actions are shown on the bottom part of the board Get resources with 1-3 dice depending on the value of the resource (camels pepper silk gold) The first player for each resource gets them for free; the later ones have to pay according to the value shown on the dice Take one resource of your choice & two camels Each player sets the minimum value for the future dice Earn money with any one die netting you five money Purchase orders The value of one die unlocks the orders up to that number (shown on the spaces) & allows to buy one or two of those orders Orders are refreshed & placed at the beginning of each round To fulfill an order players have to spend resources for victory points other resources camels & more Travel Two dice are placed to unlock the distance that can be traveled on the upper part of the board that is the map Here the traveler piece of each player starts at Venice & can decide between several routes eastward all the way to Beijing When a traveler stops at a city they place a marker there giving them access to a different additional action for the rest of the game After five rounds the game ends with players receiving victory points for arriving in Beijing fulfilling the most orders & having reached the cities on secret city cards that each player gets at the start of the game; these points are added to the VPs gained during the game Players 2-4 Suggested ages 12 Playing time 40 to 100 minutes ...

A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD'S most mysterious manuscript Since its creation in the first half of the 15th century the Voynich Manuscript has fascinated & obsessed students of the esoteric of magic & of alchemy yet to date no one has managed to crack its code It truly is one of a kind the only book in existence that has been written in its particular language & alphabet
- a language that no one can read This magnificent edition presents stunning full-colour reproductions of every page of the Voynich Manuscript along with helpful diagrams that show exactly how the folios are bound into this complex codex Two introductory essays invite readers to interpret for themselves the clues found in the manuscript's strange & beautiful illustrations of plants star constellations enigmatic bathing women & cosmological diagrams Dr Rafal T Prinke & Dr Rene Zandbergen also draw on the manuscript collections of eastern Europe not normally accessible to English-speaking scholars to offer the fullest explanation so far of the Voynich's incredible journey through history while Dr Stephen Skinner explores the parallels to the Voynich Manuscript in the cryptography of Leonardo da Vinci & the Enochian angel language of John Dee
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An everyday story of me mam me dar me kids & me gerl&s owl feller A forerunner to Carla Lane&s Bread this provocative mid-seventies sitcom pulls no punches in its depiction of a working-class Liverpudlian family who share everything except faith & football teams! The Wackers (Scouse for &mates&) stars Ken Jones
- best known as Porridge&s & Horrible& Ives
- Alison Steadman Sheila Fay a teenaged Keith Chegwin & future Brookside legend Bill Dean & is written by veteran screenwriter & Love Thy Neighbour creator Vince Powell The series became quite controversial in its day & the final episode was never transmitted All seven episodes are included on this set complete & uncut Newly released from a two-year prison term Billy Clarkson rejoins his family
- wife Mary daughter Bernadette sons Tony & Raymond & grandparents Joe & Maggie
- in the inner-city area of Dingle But Billy&s got his work cut out re-adjusting to the demands of domestic life is so much more difficult when half the family is Protestant the other half Catholic & there&s a constant threat of verbal argy-bargy erupting between the true-blue Evertonians & the Liverpool Reds Actors Ken Jones Sheila Fay Alison Steadman & Keith Chegwin Certificate 12 years & over Year 1975 Screen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 2 hours & 55 minutes (approx)




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Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play Critically hailed upon its original release The Wages of Fear has maintained its reputation as a classic of world cinema & was responsible for propelling its director Henri-Georges Clouzot to international fame In a squalid South American village four desperate men are hired by a US oil company to embark on a treacherous journey transporting a volatile cargo of nitro-glycerine to a massive oil well fire Friendships & courage are pushed to the limit in this nail-biting thriller by a director who would go on to be dubbed the ' French Hitchcock' Actors Yves Montand Charles Vanel Peter Van Eyck Vera Clouzot Directors Henri-Georges Clouzot Format Dolby limited edition PALLanguage French Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 2 ...

I wasn't The Dog that looks like its Ownerand Most Fabulous Fella was some other male But there was one class where I came in first
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After progressive multiple sclerosis landed Dr Wahls in a tiltrecline wheelchair she exhaustively researched autoimmune disease & brain biology & embraced the concepts of functional medicine The Wahls Protocol gave Dr Wahls her life back 432 pages Wahls Terry ...

Tracklist Old Churchyard Wildflowers The Valley Lights Of A Clear Blue Morning Loves Me Like A Rock Boulder To Birmingham Not Alone Keep Me In Your Heart Weary Blues From Waitin' ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Out of his depth local police officer Jong-goo investigates a spate of killings as well as an outbreak of madness seemingly connected to the recent arrival of a mysterious Japanese man who resides in the outskirts of the village What s more he is horrified to discover his young daughter may have fallen under the stranger s curse Jong-goo calls on a charismatic shaman to free his daughter from the stranger s dangerous influence but the shaman s intense exorcism ritual threatens to worsen the situation & Jong-goo with his world collapsing around him realises he must confront the ultimate evil ...