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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An electrifying thriller that opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, is found dead in his home: it is widely assumed...
Author
Publisher
Buster Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring a day in the life of early humans as they paint wooly mammoths on the walls of a cave, a fierce gladiator battling in the Colosseum and a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. And not forgetting the animals of history -- from a day in the life of Hannibal's war elephant marching over the Alps and an Egyptian cat (worshiped as a god, of course) to a Galapagos tortoise who meets Charles Darwin on his famous voyage of the Beagle...
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