Parfait Gentle Knights and Rama and Sita in Charming Retellings
Ian Serraillier retells the Song of Roland with vivid battle scenes and stained-glass prose, while Barbara Leonie Picard's Rama and Sita offers an Indian legend of exile, abduction, and divine intervention. The volumes feature striking illustrations and Eastern atmosphere.
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Ian Serraillier
Oxford
Roland
Charlemagne
Spain
Oliver
France
Roncesvalles
Ganelon
Serraillier
Archbishop Turpin
Turpin
Corsalis
Barbary
Baligant
Babylon
William Stebbs
Rama
Sita
Barbara Leonie Picard
The Greatest Test Of All Review
A breezy portrait of the 1960 Brisbane West Indies tour tie with Australia. Sobers 132 and O Neill 181 feature, Davidson 11 wickets, Hall 9, plus Meckiff near win in final over. Fingleton blends match facts with memoir and batting notes.
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Brisbane
West Indies
Fingleton
Australia
Sobers
O'Neill
Davidson
Hall
Solomon
Meckiff
Jack Fingleton
Escapist Toll yarn with curare as murder method
A summary of a Toll mystery featuring Miss Parker, a paranoid cripple, his neurotic daughter, a drinking wife, two fortune-hunting suitors, and a respectable lover. The detective, an interior decorator, withholds information yet drops a concealed clue guiding the breakthrough to the killer. The piece laments intuition in women mystery writing.
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Creasey
Ivory Horn book plate from Jan Serraillier tale
A typical book plate from The Ivory Horn by Jan Serraillier depicts a chivalry themed scene with Roland and Oliver. The plate reflects the children's story's medieval adventure and noble ideal.
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Jan Serraillier
Roland and
Oliver
Race for the North Pole rekindled in Weems study
A 1909 race between Peary and Cook gets a new look in Jo Edward Weems’s Race for the North Pole. The review notes careful documentation, even-handed treatment, and lingering debate, with interest fading for modern readers but appeal for Arctic exploration fans.
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North Pole
Robert E. Peary
Frederick Albert Cool
Jo Edward Weems
Naulilt
Pat Boom
Thrace
Peary
Evry
Cook
Weems
Jalmar Stefansson Howett
Arctic
Neu Pole
Keen
Arctic Exploration
Jit
Edward Weems
Matin
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