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A sperm whale, an estuarine crocodile, a sabre-tooth tiger and a mastodon, all threatened with extinction, prelude this story of four men destined to set a course for the future of the world. It is 25 BC and four slaves row in a galley for the Roman Empire: Britannius, sentenced for committing rape; Himilco, for molestation and treason; Enoch, for wounding a centurion and implicated in supplying the asps for Queen Cleopatra's suicide; and Hanno, for killing his owner. Following a shipwreck, three of them are recaptured but the fourth escapes. And so starts an epic journey for all four that spans the entire world with their individual adventures. Constantly hounded and pursued by the overseer from the original galley, each is re-captured, escapes again, and thinks about the reason for the journeys, especially after they all unexpectedly meet again after years on the run. What is it all for? It will take the universe to explain...
Fernao Lopes was St Helena's first inhabitant, where he lived in a self-imposed exile following his judicial mutilation in Goa for treason and apostasy. In this book, Beau W. Rowlands explores the remarkable story of the 'South Atlantic Robinson Crusoe'."
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A guide that presents the varied origins of the birds on the two Atlantic islands, St Helena and Ascension. It contains background on the islands' history and biogeography, and illustrated species accounts.
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.