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The Way To The Stars: The Story Of The Famous Dutch Scientist--Christiaan Huygens--And How The Records Of His ..

... harry the Dutch, and then Holmes went on (Continued on page 70) The Way To The Stars to New Amsterdam (New York) and to the West Indies. On the whole of this route the Huygens clocks had been used for navigation. On the way back, 300 leagues from Barbados ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1622 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

Sir Philip Sidney's Stella: The Story Of His Overmastering Passion For Lady Penelope Devereux Which Inspired ..

... Then, his thoughts turned to an attack on Spain in the New World, with Sir Francis Drake leading an expedition to the West Indies as spearhead. He not only worked hard at the project secretly he planned to join it himself, without the Queen's sanction ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1927 | Page: 79 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... more can he say than that this is Another Spain CUNLIFFE OWEN'S Maroon (Hale, 10s. 6d.) is a dramatic story of two big West Indies estates and their owners' reactions to a zealot who wants to reform the Negroes. IN Moab Is My Washpot (Benn, 12s. 6d ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1576 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

FLOWERS of the NIGHT

... the Lord God almightie hath shewed in this thistle Thus Gerarde, the botanist, describes a species of cacti from the West Indies in The Herball Or Generall Historie Of Plantes in 1596. The enthusiastic cactus-lover of today who fills window sill and ...

Published: Sunday 01 May 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 572 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations