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| Thread ID: 76884 | 2007-02-19 09:08:00 | Dirty books | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 525778 | 2007-02-20 07:15:00 | How can a book written in 1947 be only 35 years old? Also beware of so-called Non-Fiction. Just the writer's opinion of what happened. Editions |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 525779 | 2007-02-21 00:42:00 | I have a largish book here called "British Battles Vol 1, published in 1888 . It has a very small oval stamp inside the cover plate saying "P Masterton, Book Importer, Dunedin" and it covers all battles from Hastings in 1066 through to Dettingen in 1743 . Now these guys were into seriously blood-letting and make Gallipoli & the Somme sound like teddybear's picnics . In addition to all the big names, it has such oddities as the battles of Chipping Barnet, Dunkirk (1666, the Poms never learned), Shrewsbury, and Otterburne aka Chevy Chase (if you ever wondered where that name came from!) Mostly they fought gentlemens' hours, not starting in the morning until the other party was ready, and stopping for tea and an overnight rest before it got dark! All I need now is Volume II but I haven't located a copy yet . BTW, I always thought starch and water made glue, so I'm not sure I'd dust that between the pages of a dampish book . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 525780 | 2007-02-21 20:23:00 | How can a book written in 1947 be only 35 years old? Also beware of so-called Non-Fiction. Just the writer's opinion of what happened. As another correspondent has already noted - the age I referred to was the actual age of the book from when it was printed. Many books are reprinted, sometimes even decades after they were originally written. My Pocket Oxford Dictionary is a superb example. I do agree with your note about non fiction. It is so easy to be taken in. There have been many examples in the past, but the internet is making it easier to note errors or downright lies. I have been taken in several times over the past 70 years or so but get more careful as time goes on. An amusing incident took place when I was about 5 years old. I had already decided that elephants were figments of the imagination, and still remember my amazement when my father took me to a local circus and I saw the things were real. But I still believed in Father Christmas. I still do! Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 525781 | 2007-02-22 03:01:00 | Canadian non-fiction gave me "reality" when small. There was a large black bear in the bedroom's darkest corner. The fact that it vanished in the daytime was immaterial. It lived there until a wardrobe was moved - and the shadow shape changed. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 525782 | 2007-02-24 21:12:00 | Canadian non-fiction gave me "reality" when small. There was a large black bear in the bedroom's darkest corner. The fact that it vanished in the daytime was immaterial. It lived there until a wardrobe was moved - and the shadow shape changed. Shame! |
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