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|author=James Evans

|title=Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England

|rating=4.5

|genre=History

|summary=We tend to associate the golden age of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins. This book does us all a service in reminding us of the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>

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'All I have to do is pull a 'slide' from the accumulated silt of memory...there it is: a varnish-clear image as vivid as the day it was recorded, however long ago.'

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373599</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Mapp and Lucia Omnibus~~

~~|author=E F Benson~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Humour~~

|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules the town of Tilling - she is the centre of the social life, and spends her days enjoying bridge, polite conversation and civilised painting. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known to all as Lucia), Miss Mapp finds her life truly shaken up, as the cultured, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes her home in the town, and swiftly rises to the top of the ranks amongst the social scene in Tilling.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908478</amazonuk>~~

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