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Excerpt from Greeks and BarbariansThere have been many explanations of ancient Greece and its peculiar spirit. If I may say so, the only original thing about the explanation offered in this book is its want of originality, for it is the explanation of the Greeks themselves. They believed that Hellenism was born of the con¿ict between the Greeks and the Barbarians. As Thucydides puts it (i. Greek and Barbarian are correlative terms and Herodotu...

The second novel from the author of "The Sound of Whales". Long-buried secrets resurface as Innis Munro hears the howl of a wolf on Nin Island. However, the wolves were hunted to extinction centuries ago. An atmospheric adventure set on a remote Scottish island.

The winner of the "Times"/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2014, this is a classic adventure. On a remote Scottish island, 3 children discover the bodies of a whale and a man. What happened on the water isn't natural, and only by watching the whales can it be put right. Ages: 10+

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Excerpt from Greeks and Barbarians There have been many explanations of ancient Greece and its peculiar spirit. If I may say so, the only original thing about the explanation offered in this book is its want of originality, for it is the explanation of the Greeks themselves. They believed that Hellenism was born of the con¿ict between the Greeks and the Barbarians. As Thucydides puts it (i. Greek and Barbarian are correlative terms and Herodo...

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