![]() For each, I’d send 20-30 photos of the background setting, making sure to provide less familiar details such as rock structure and Arctic ice. ![]() They were also covers where Luis and I, through his agent and interpreters (I don’t speak Spanish), worked together more than ever before. Luis Royo did those covers, capturing pivotal moments in the story, and I loved them all. My biggest, most ambitious work-to-date and a story near and dear to my biologist’s heart. Those of you familiar with the original trilogy, Survival, Migration, and Regeneration, know the first of those titles was released in 2004. ![]() I’m delighted to share with you the shiny new cover for DAW Books trade omnibus edition of Mac’s story. Julie is also a wonderfully warm and welcoming person, and I’m happy to help spotlight her new project! I read and enjoyed the third book as well, but for some reason I either didn’t post a review or else I forgot to tag it so I’d be able to find it later. I reviewed book one of this trilogy here and book two here (some spoilers in the reviews). ![]() ![]() Czerneda for the cover reveal of her omnibus, Species Imperative, which comes out September 2 of this year. Today, I’m handing the blog over to author Julie E. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Young married Athel Lindorf, a former professional harpist, and had two children, Dean and Jeanne. Called by former King Features Syndicate president Joseph Connelly as "the greatest story teller of his kind since the immortal Charles Dickens", at his peak popularity, Young received more fan mail than any other cartoonist. Seeking a change, Young created Blondie in 1930, which almost immediately became the most popular comic strip in America. In 1923, Young moved to New York to work with King Features Syndicate and in 1924 created the cartoon Dumb Dora, which ran for six years. ![]() Louis before working in offices and the Chicago railways while attempting to find work in the art world. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in 1948.īorn in Chicago, Illinois in 1901, Young attended high school in St. His other works include the strip Colonel Pottersby and the Duchess, which ran from 1935 through 1963. Murat Bernard "Chic" Young was an American cartoonist known primarily as the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Britain first comes in touch with the great Mughal Empire, it was relatively inconsequential. ![]() Quick and aided by a huge military and technological power. I had always thought of the British conquest of India, as similar to that of the conquistadores in South America. The subject matter was completely foreign to me, but I did not feel out-of my-depth – even if truth be told, I was not listening as attentively as I should have been.īut I still learned a great deal, and so I thought perhaps it is worth trying to write down the things I learned, just in case I forget them. On the other hand, at least I know how to pronounce the names of the historical figures described in it, even though I would be at a complete loss if anyone asked me to spell them. I should have had a pen and a notebook open, and occasionally a map, just to locate the places That is surely not the reading it deserves. I let it waft around me, listening on Audible as I cooked dinner and I cleared the kitchen. Did I really ‘read’ William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy? ![]() ![]() It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future. ![]() Quotes: "It was a real example of the pitiful arbitrariness of existence, that you were born into a particular time and held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. A most singular novel and a complete joy. ![]() Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man. Humboldt's travels down the Orinoco and in South America are astounding, as are the encounters with and references to such figures as Aguirre and Goethe and an entire academy of famous historical and scientific notables, as he makes his appearances, Zelig-like. Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment. At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. The narrative of Humboldt's adventures, with its untold miseries and dangers, and of Gauss' seemingly effortless mathematical mastery, are told as if Candide were the storyteller, dry and factual, yet reciting the most ridiculous incidents with incredible wit. ![]() Shamefully, I had never heard of either man, nor of Humboldt's faithful and droll explorer companion, Bonpland. The depth, breadth, and humor of this factually-based adventure story, encompassing the lives of two brilliant scientists, Carl Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt, is incredible for such a short volume. ![]() |