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The Queen of Heaven is extraordinarily difficult to find anywhere in history, but miraculously she is still there. As in the Old Testament where the women of the ancient Jewish settlement on Elephantine island in southern Egypt defended their worship of the Queen of Heaven, when they were dramatically confronted by the exiled prophet Jeremiah, for worshipping 'false' gods in the 6th century BCE. (Jeremiah 45:15-21). Who was this ancient 'Qu...

The wild adventures of a professional ornithologist - struggling to defeat alcoholism - working on the remote islands of the 'Forbidden Zone' of the Maldives in the late 1980s. Until very recently, permits to visit these islands south of the equator had almost never been issued to foreigners. The inebriated ornithologist arrives in the capital, Malé, after banishment from a Middle-Eastern kingdom when he was discovered abed with the king's fav...

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An excoriating investigation into how zoos have comprehensively failed in their claimed ambitions to augment rare or endangered species using 'captive breeding programmes'. This radical insight exposes how the oft-repeated concept of taking the last animals from the wild to breed them in captivity has been used to justify a lucrative industry in the export from wild Africa, and elsewhere, of the young of seriously endangered wild animals, invo...

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