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Quisling: A Study in Treachery
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Because the name Quisling has passed into everyday language, there is a danger we sloganize the historical character. As Dahl makes clear in this scholarly but most readable biography, Quisling was not simply a nazi yes man. His own ideas owed much to Christian fundamentalism and a home grown philosophy called Universalism. He collaborated with Hi... »
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The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady
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Elizabeth Taylor, one of those indomitable Victorian women who hiked their skirts and explored where even tough moderns would pause, faced the wilds of northern Canada and of the Faroe Islands. The miserable weather etched the inhabitants but didn't faze our guide.Taylor was neither a sentimentalist nor a cynic but saw clearly and wrote straight. T... »
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