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Product Description: Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author's self-imposed exile on the Breton shore. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780748662791 | Polygon, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author's self-imposed exile on the Breton shore.

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Chock full of new insights into the creator of Sherlock Holmes, this compelling new portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle covers his life, from his whaling adventures as a young man to his obsession with the 'Psychic Crusade' during his final years. Winner of the 1999 Edgar for Best Biographical Work. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780805050745 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1999, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning as a small-town doctor, became a friend to the famous, a celebrated writer, and a psychic investigator.

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9780805066845 | Reprint edition (Owl Books, January 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning as a small-town doctor, became a friend to the famous, a celebrated writer, and a psychic investigator.

Product Description: This work examines different aspects of George Mackay Brown's work and concludes with an updated and enlarged bibliography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Hilda D. Spear (editor)

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9780773476974 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This work examines different aspects of George Mackay Brown's work and concludes with an updated and enlarged bibliography.

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A fascinating biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man who sought to live up the Victorian ideal of manhood and who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes. (view table of contents)

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9780312242510 | Minotaur Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man of Victorian times who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes

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9780946487240 | Revised edition (Luath Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Book by Brown, Margaret Gillies (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781874640691 | Argyll Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Book by Brown, Margaret Gillies

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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.

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9780719556289 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, February 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.

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9780719558894 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $22.99

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Product Description: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry. Edwin Muir's journey took him from Edinburgh to the Lowlands, to Glasgow and the Highlands, and the book, while a masterpiece of travel writing, is also a quest for the real nature of Scottish identity...read more

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9780906391044 | Reprint edition (Mainstream, December 1, 1980), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry.

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9781851588411 | Mainstream, July 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry.

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Product Description: A biography of the poet Robert Service. It describes his childhood in Scotland, his time spent working in the Yukon shortly after the Klondike gold rush, and his years as a correspondent and intelligence officer in France during the war.

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9781851587049 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A biography of the poet Robert Service.

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Product Description: Peter Costello has unravelled the overlap of Conan Doyle's real life and fictional interest in crime with this brilliant insight into the living mind of Sherlock Holmes. From Jack the Ripper to Sacco and Vanzetti, here is a masterpiece of detective work in its own right.

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9780881847383 | Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Reveals the brilliant mind of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who was a 'consulting detective' when he was not writing fiction

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9780786700202 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Peter Costello has unravelled the overlap of Conan Doyle's real life and fictional interest in crime with this brilliant insight into the living mind of Sherlock Holmes.

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Product Description: In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides.The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail...read more

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9780941533980 | New Amsterdam Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat.

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9781850572503 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $11.95

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Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

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9780393025934 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

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Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780892962471 | Mysterious Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780892969265 | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Product Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), whose fascinating life and neglected literature are finally attracting the attention of a wide audience throughout the world, was an inveterate traveler to Europe, North and South America, and North Africa...read more
By John Walker (editor)

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9780817303556 | Univ of Alabama Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), whose fascinating life and neglected literature are finally attracting the attention of a wide audience throughout the world, was an inveterate traveler to Europe, North and South America, and North Africa.

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9780080345178 | Pergamon Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $10.50

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Product Description: In childhood there is no distinction between, boy, bird, mammal or fish. A Twelvemonth and a Day is about change and growth, the fluctuating patterns in the worklife of a fishing and farming community throughout the whole cycle of a year, and about the year itself, the life of nature...read more

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9780080324289 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Rush, Christopher

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9780862414399 | Canongate Books Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In childhood there is no distinction between, boy, bird, mammal or fish.
9780080324692 | Pergamon Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

Product Description: Book by Lachtman, Howard

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9780884962274 | Capra Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Lachtman, Howard

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Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

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9780804421461 | Ungar Pub Co, July 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

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