A Rum Affair

Author : Karl Sabbagh
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857909061
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rum Affair written by Karl Sabbagh and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of a Scottish isle, an eminent professor, a lie, and an amateur botanist who saw the truth, by the author of Antisemitism Wars. In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast of Scotland had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of what most botanists believed—that no plants had survived the 10,000-year period of extreme cold. But Heslop Harrison had proof: the plants and grasses found on the isle of Rum. Harrison didn’t anticipate, however, an amateur botanist called John Raven, who boldly questioned whether these grasses were truly indigenous to the area, or whether they had been transported there. This is the story of what happened when a tenacious amateur set out to find out the truth, and how he uncovered a most extraordinary fraud. Praise for A Rum Affair “A breezy ride . . . informative and amusing.” —Washington Post Book World “An exciting scientific detective story.” —Times Literary Supplement

Author : Karl Sabbagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140278286
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rum Affair written by Karl Sabbagh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of professor Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic at Newcastle University, who, over a period of years, strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by planting flora in places where it had never been found before, and then discovering it. His nemesis came in the form of John Raven, a young classics don with a fierce passion for botany, who believed that he had caught the eminent professor red-handed on the isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks on the affair, Raven's evidence was never published, and Heslop-Harrison's continued to to dominate British botany for the next decade. This book tells the tragi-comic story.

Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755131444
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum Affair written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mystery is told from the point of view of the 'Bird'; Tina Rossi, a famous coloratura soprano who arrives to sing at the Edinburgh Festival, only to find a murder victim in a cupboard, whilst at the same time her lover, top scientist Kenneth Homes, has gone missing.

Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : Duckworth Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781788424110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum Affair written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Duckworth Books Limited. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tina Rossi, the world's leading coloratura soprano, has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival, but in reality to meet her lover, top scientist Kenneth Holmes. Instead of finding Kenneth at their rendezvous, she discovers an unknown corpse. At this moment Johnson Johnson, a famous but enigmatic portrait painter turns up. Dolly is about to sail in a race to the Hebrides where Holmes was conducting his top-secret research to discover more about his disappearance. Soon they are sailing the high seas together, but as Dolly nears Rum, the race becomes one for life rather than prize money... ***PRAISE FOR THE DOLLY MYSTERY SERIES*** 'The Dolly novels are... delicious, funny, ingenious, glamorous, clever.' Listener 'Dunnett tempts her fans with buried clues and red herrings that keep them reading and rereading the books.' New York Times '[Dunnett's] women are among her strongest characters.' Guardian

Author : Tess Stimson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553906798
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Good Affair written by Tess Stimson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her gift for “surprising emotional honesty…[and] an impressive ability to get inside the heads of [her characters],”* Tess Stimson grips readers with this internationally bestselling novel of six lovers, two marriages, one affair—and what happens when a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel. Ella Stuart is a pediatrician with a fulfilling career and a marriage any woman would envy. William Ashfield is a devoted husband, a good father, and a successful businessman. Beth Ashfield married the love of her life and loves him still, but the light inside her is going out and she has one last chance to rekindle it. And Cate, Beth and William’s brilliant but troubled teenage daughter, is trying to negotiate the rough waters between adolescence and womanhood. But when tragedy strikes, the repercussions spiral through all of their lives—and in an instant, nothing will ever be the same. Now Ella, William, Beth, and Cate will discover that trying to have it all might be keeping them from the very thing they each want most…. With sharp wit and moving honesty, Tess Stimson has written a brazenly unsentimental yet deeply felt novel of hearts gone astray that somehow keep the faith—even when everyone seems to be cheating. *Publishers Weekly

Author : Matt Murphy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1460713044
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum written by Matt Murphy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't hungover? Would the Eureka Stockade have been different if the rebels weren't pissed? How were prisoners to get drunk if Macquarie closed the only pub in the gaol? And why should sailors under fourteen be deprived of their sixteen shots of rum per day? These are just some of the questions raised in Matt Murphy's account of Australia's colonial history. Brimming with detailed research and irreverent character sketches, Rum looks at not just how much was drunk in colonial Australia (a lot!), but also the lengths people went to get their hands on it, the futile efforts of the early governors to control it, and the often disastrous and/or absurd consequences of its consumption. Those consequences aren't just in our past. Murphy goes beyond foundation stories to look at the legacy our love affair with alcohol has created, from binge drinking to lockout laws and from prohibition to urinating on the parliamentary carpet. So here's to Rum, for making bad decisions look like a good idea at the time.

Author : Mary Karr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142000183
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viper Rum written by Mary Karr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink: I cast back to those last years I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink, bathrobed, my head hatching snakes, while my baby slept in his upstairs cage and my marriage choked to death Precise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" (Poetry). Also included is Karr's controversial and prize-winning essay "Against Decoration," in which she took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days-the "new formalism" that elevates form to an end itself.

Author : Mikko Macchione
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439666520
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Rum written by Mikko Macchione and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix yourself a Hurricane and see New Orleans through a glass of rum. Like a drunken Mardi Gras parade, the history of New Orleans lurches from electrifying highs to heart-rending lows. Through it all, good drink was a constant - especially rum. The victory at the Battle of New Orleans was sealed with a barrel of rum, and a half-hearted implementation of Prohibition a century later certainly didn't dampen the city's spirits. From priests making tafia to modern delights like Old New Orleans and Bayou, rum has always been an integral part of the funky, sultry, crazy story of the Crescent City. Longtime historian and writer Mikko Macchione presents a witty and informative history of the city and its love affair with the sweetest of liquors.

Author : Tristan Stephenson
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN 13 : 1788790073
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Bartender's Rum Revolution written by Tristan Stephenson and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why rum is becoming the hottest spirit in the world right now with the latest and greatest offering from bestselling author and master mixologist Tristan Stephenson.

Author : Karl Sabbagh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374250072
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riemann Hypothesis written by Karl Sabbagh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, informative, and wryly humorous exploration of one of the great conundrums of all time In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article giving an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. But he didn’t provide a proof. In fact, he said he couldn’t prove it but he thought that his answer was “very probably” true. From the publication of that paper to the present day, the world’s mathematicians have been fascinated, infuriated, and obsessed with proving the Riemann Hypothesis, and so great is the interest in its solution that in 2001 an American foundation put up prize money of $1 million for the first person to demonstrate that the hypothesis is correct. The hypothesis refers to prime numbers, which are in some sense the atoms from which all other numbers are constructed, and seeks to explain where every single prime to infinity will occur. Riemann’s idea—if true—would illuminate how these numbers are distributed, and if false will throw pure mathematics into confusion. Karl Sabbagh meets some of the world’s mathematicians who spend their lives thinking about the Riemann Hypothesis, focusing attention in particular on “Riemann’s zeros,” a series of points that are believed to lie in a straight line, though no one can prove it. Accessible and vivid, The Riemann Hypothesis is a brilliant explanation of numbers and a profound meditation on the ultimate meaning of mathematics.