He jumped from his bed and threw on his jeans and turtleneck. He had a strange feeling that he had been awaken from his sleep just in the nick of time to keep a rendezvous with the helicopter blades he heared rushing toward him outside his window. He ran, hopping on one foot to the window pulling on his sneakers. "It can't be here already!" he shouted. It was.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

One woman's journey from a successful barrister to an Irish Government investigator in the Cayman Islands.

Tallis' book, published in 1852, gives a vibrant account of the Great Exhibition, a key event of the Victorian period.