Praised by playwright Arthur Miller as "a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture" and by Booklist as "the single most heavily used book on classical studies,"
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The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnutt do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a wild and crazy plan.
Журнал для изучающих английский язык. CONTENTS Examination - ЕГЭ Nadezhda's corner - Switching the Channels Across Britain - Oxford Spaceward - Mars Pen - Mondegreen Cover - Robert Patterson Music - Metallica Author! Author! - The Strugatsky Brothers Eco Mania - Beware! Plastics! Sci-Tech - A Great Scientific Mystery Unraveled
The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes explores the everyday life of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge to examine how they experienced manhood...
