Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian times that make the twenty-first century reader run to the reference shelf. Few, for example, are intimately acquainted with the responsibilities of a country squire, the importance of gentlemen's clubs, or the intricacies of the Victorian monetary system.
These twenty-four short essays explore various aspects of life mentioned in the original tales of Sherlock Holmes, providing modern-day insight into the nineteenth century world. Originally shared through various Sherlockian newsletters around the world, they are gathered here for the first time. Essays cover:
The Life of a Country Squire
The Holmes' Family Connection to the Vernets of France
The Fate of Second Sons
The Victorian Medical Practice
Victorian Transportion
The Origins of Scotland Yard
The River Thames
Apiculture in the 1800s
Westminster Palace
Sherlock's Christmas Spirit
Practicing Law in Victorian England
The Second Anglo-Afghan War
Gentleman's Clubs
Tobacco
221B Baker Street
Abductive Reasoning
Dog Breeding
Poisons
Fingerprints
Phrenology
Communications
The Monetary System
The British Museum
Chloroform
These examinations bring deeper meaning and color to the adventures of the world's most famous consulting detective.
The president of The Crew of the Barque Lone Star, a Sherlockian Scion Society, notes this collection "brings life to a society which we have only dreamed of."
Whether a fan of Sherlock Holmes or a history enthusiast, this book offers interesting tidbits to all.
Описание: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian times. These short twenty-four essays explore various aspects of life mentioned in the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world`s most famous consulting detective.
"Slop shops," "scissorizing," "agony aunts," and "foolscap"
These and other Victorian references appear throughout the original Sherlock Holmes tales. Everyday words and phrases to the Victorian may have modern day readers running to references books. These twenty-four short essaysexplain and explore various aspects of life mentioned in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, providing modern-day insight into the nineteenth century world.
The collection also includes the essay-"Evil Women: The Villainesses of the Canon," originally published in the Baker Street Journal.
Originally shared through various Sherlockian newsletters around the world, they are gathered here for the first time. Essays cover:
Violins
Electric and vs. gas lighting
Scrapbooking
Agony columns
The Agra Fort
Cardboard
Sound Recordings
Telephones
Jellyfish
Rugby
Brandy
The Opera
The Crown Jewels
Snakes
Italian political organizations
Banks
Diabetes
Pocket watches
Writing paper
Coroners
Pawnshops
Clothing
Calling cards
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- Carole Nelson Douglas,
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Описание: Fabre had many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity is due to his marvelous teaching ability and his manner of writing about the lives of insects in biographical form.
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The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations with three children. Besides such stories as the ants' subterranean city, the spider's suspension bridge, and the caterpillars' processing, he unlocks the mystery behind thunder and lightning, clouds and rain, the year and its seasons, and volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for ages 9 to 12.
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Автор: Fabre, Jean-Henri Название: Insect World Of Fabre, The ISBN: 0807085138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807085134 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jean Henri Fabre, nineteenth-century French entomologist and author of the massive Souvenirs Entomoligies, has inspired perhaps more modern writer/naturalists than any other chronicler of the natural world. Edwin Way Teale's selection of the most compelling of Fabre's writing makes The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre the essential edition of the writer Darwin called "the incomparable observer."
Автор: Fabre Jean Henri Название: The Story Book of Science ISBN: 168422392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684223923 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1924.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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2019 Reprint of 1918 Edition. Profusely iilustrated. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 80 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of whatever age will find themselves drawn to this incomparable story-teller, this reverent reveler of the awe-inspiring secrets of nature. The identity of the "Uncle Paul," who in this book and others of the series plays the story-teller's part, is not hard to guess; and the young people who gather about him to listen to his true stories from wood and field, from brook and hilltop, from distant ocean and adjacent millpond, are, without doubt, the author's own children, in whose companionship he delighted and whose education he conducted with wise solicitude."
Jean Henri Fabre reveals the wondrous nature of items we use and encounter daily, explaining how such things commonly taken for granted are fascinating and intricate.
Everyday things encountered in nature and at home carry many fascinating properties, from foodstuffs to common creatures to the physics behind light and heat. Simple tools like the needle and thread, or the dyes in clothing, or the usual methods of cookery are revealed as the result of many years of human effort; the chemical and physical processes behind so many inventions we consider ordinary or benign are anything but.
As an entomologist who studied nature and insects, Fabre goes on to keenly explain how small creatures in nature fulfil many roles. The various foods - chocolate, coffee, olive oil - are shown to have important properties and origins. Weather such as rain and snow, and the forces and phenomena of physics - light and sound - are also visited. A common theme throughout this work is the vivid and engaging style of the author; a capable explainer who wrote many books, Fabre brings life and fascination to objects and topics that would otherwise be thought mundane.
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Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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Описание: Die Herausgabe einer Gesamt bersetzung der Entomologischen Erinnerungen von Jean-Henri Fabre in zweisprachiger Fassung wird mit der vorliegenden 3. Serie fortgesetzt. Sie schliesst an die Herausgabe der 1. Serie 2009, der 2. Serie 2010, der 10. Serie 2011 und der 6. Serie 2013 an
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