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The book presents for the first time the restoration of Amundsen’s glass slides, one of the most beautiful collections of slides in the world. The 248 slides

A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.

Through Violent Bonham Carter's remarkable diaries and letters, published here for the first time, the decade before the first world war is seen from a unique r