Hugh Thomas

After narrowly escaping death in Canada's Lake Laberge, the half-drowned Miranda Colton is thrown upon the mercy of Thomas "Teddy" Davenport, a botanist intent on finishing a book about plant vegetation, and determined not to be diverted by romance. Just a few miles away, Karen Ivankov; her husband, Adrik; and Miranda's very pregnant sister-in-law, Grace Colton, struggle to live through the chilling Yukon winter in only a tent. They grieve for Miranda, whom they believe is dead. Meanwhile, Grace's husband, Peter, regrets his past treatment of the wife he has given up for lost, unaware that she is alive and about to make him a father.

"Suppose a fleet of Mexican ships had sailed across the Atlantic in 1519 touched at the Canaries, had a look at Madeira, picked up some beer and pneumonia in the Azores (just as Columbus's expedition apparently picked up syphilis and tobacco in Cuba), and then returned to Veracruz. Could we really say that they discovered Europe?". "The author argues that there were more similarities between ancient Mexico and old Europe than most people suppose, making the Spanish "discovery" of Mexico redundant. The Mexicans could not, of course, have sailed across the Atlantic, having developed only canoes for fishing and modest transportation. But they had kings, noblemen, priests, taxes, laws and many other cultural developments that paralleled societies in the Old World. The difference of real importance was the Spanish capacity to wonder what was happening across the ocean and to travel there to see it for themselves." "This volume is the first in a series of books published in conjunction with a lecture and discussion. This series is held under the auspices of the Frick Collection in New York entitled Anshen Transdisciplinary Lectureships in Art, Science and the Philosophy of Culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Describes the male and female reproductive organs and their functions and discusses such topics as masturbation, intercourse, venereal disease, and contraception.

No great historical subject is so laden with modern controversy or so obscured by myth and legend as the slave trade. Who were tbe slavers? How profitable was the business? Why did many African rulers and peoples collaborate? The strength of Hugh Thomas's book is that it begins with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, before Columbus's voyage to the New World, and ends with the last gasp of the slave trade, long since made illegal elsewhere, in Cuba and Brazil twenty-five years after the American Emancipation Proclamation. His narrative is vividly alive with villains and heroes, and illuminated by eyewitness accounts, many of which are published here for the first time. Hugh Thomas gives the reader the facts about the slave trade - shows us how whole towns, like Bristol and Liverpool in England, Nantes in France, or Newport in Rhode Island, grew and prospered on slavery; how each new discovery and colonization spurred the demand for slave labor. He confronts the thorny subject of Jewish involvement in the slave trade, documents the fact that many of the New England whaling captains became successful slavers on the side, and tells the story of the rising tide of the antislavery movement, first against the trade and then against the institution of slavery itself. He describes the work of men such as Montesquieu in France, Wilberforce in England, and Anthony Benezet in the United States who finally succeeded in turning public opinion against slavery and making it illegal in Europe and the New World.

Spain is an unknown country. Experience proves that it is hard to view the country impartially. This book provides information and insight to this country; along with photos.