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SLOW EDDIE is a story of friendship, race, class, love and loss that unfolds on Cape Cod. Eddie, a bike-riding school teacher, is friends with Harvard classmates Chip and Jamie, respectively a patrician lawyer and smart-mouthed Jewish doctor. Jules is Chip's wife, Jamie's nurse, and Eddie's fantasy. Supporting characters include Eddie's twin cousins, formerly incarcerated and now custodians at his school, as well as teaching colleagues Nettie, a "Reverse Freedom Rider" from the South, and Taylor, a privileged expatriate of Grosse Point, Michigan. Eddie's favorite is Perry, a promising Cape Verdean student and athlete.
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Découvrez les événements fondateurs de The Cape, le comics nominé aux Eisner Awards et encensé par la critique ! 1969. La guerre du Vietnam fait rage. L’hélicoptère du capitaine Chase, pilote d’Evasan pour l’armée américaine, est abattu en territoire ennemi. Ses hommes et lui sont obligés de fuir, poursuivis par les soldats viêt-Cong... et ils découvriront vite que le mugissement des armes automatiques n’est pas le seul danger dans la jungle. Un comics viscéral aux allures de graphic novel, qui retrace le destin poignant et fantastique du père des enfants découverts dans The Cape. Tiré d’une nouvelle de Joe Hill, The Cape pulvérise le mythe du héros – et du super-héros. « Nelson Daniel a un tel talent pour l’art séquentiel que ses pages ressemblent davantage à un film qu’à un comics. » IGN « À lire absolument si vous êtes fan de Joe Hill (tout le monde devrait l’être). » Read Comic Books
Sir John Herschel, one of the founders of Southern Hemisphere astronomy, was a man of extraordinarily wide interests. He made contributions to botany, geology, and ornithology, as well as to astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. Throughout his scientific career he kept a diary, recording his public and private life. The diaries from 1834 to 1838, years he spent making astronomical observations at the Cape of Good Hope, are reproduced in this book and prove to be much more than an ordinary scientist’s logbook. They present personal and social history, literary commentaries, the results of close observations of nature and numerous scientific experiments, the excitement of travel, political ...
Robert J. Morgan has been Senior Historian at the Fortress of Louisbourg and Professor of History at Cape Breton University.
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