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Correspondence from Robert Kaye Greville to John Torrey, dated 1820-1849. Greville's first letter, dated Novembr 9, 1820, marks the beginning of his correspondence with Torrey; still a medical student, he thanks Torrey for a gift of plant specimens and assures him he will be happy to correspond with him. While Greville does discuss issues of plant identification, his real obsession is botanical literature. His letters are packed with news of the latest publications, and the details of major illustrated works. "You would be surprized [sic] if you knew the disadvantages I labor under in Edinburgh," he writes in 1824. "There is no public library that cares a sixpence for botany. I am obligated ...
The Thunderbird Conspiracy is the remarkable tale of Robert Kaye, a Hungarian freedom fighter who claimed he knew and collaborated with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. R. K. Price's second novel is also a tale of a Nebraska farm boy who was a great admirer of President Kennedy and a true patriot who desperately wanted to believe his government's hurried conclusion that Oswald had no accomplice. Yet his own harrowing experience at the hands of his government created profound doubt in his mind, and it haunted him to his death. These two men, one willfully acting, the other a true victim, became entangled in the most notorious crime of the 20th century. This saga of intrigue and murder was reve...
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