Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin ...

He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Quintus Servinton (1830) is credited as being the first Australian novel, which, despite its dubious literary merit, gives it unique status. Henry Savery was born in 1791 in Somerset.

(See 1999 edition B C692.15/M1) Chapter 8 concerns Aboriginal inhabitants of New South Wales three years after arrival of First Fleet; describes physical appearance, huts and use of caves, friendliness, honesty; visits by natives to the ...