Matthew Parker
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To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies became the strategic center of the Western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold."As Matthew...
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Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white-sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here.This book explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation...
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They have several lives, several forms, and they know many worlds. They are insects. They lived underwater, they will walk the earth for centuries to come. They were crawling, they will fly. They waited underground, they will climb into the sky. Metamorphosis reveals the story of a larva that couldn't resist an irresistible call. Cicada, swallowtail, dragonfly, ant, mosquito: our brave heroines will go through the scariest moment of their life to...