Duncans Travels

A Scottish traveler describes his journey, making observations on the government, slavery, social mores, manners, and so forth. The journey is limited, only touching briefly into states besides New York. Vol. 2 of 2

A Scottish traveler describes his journey, making observations on the government, slavery, social mores, manners, and so forth. The journey is limited, only touching briefly into states besides New York. Vol. 1 of 2

The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books.

This text is a biography of Robert Duncan, one of America's great postwar poets. The author takes the reader from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for many poets and painters around him.--(Source of description unspecified.)

The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. This authoritive biography combines an engrossing narrative with an invaluable assessment of Grant's individual achievement and his place within Bloomsbury and in the wider development of British art. 'Spalding's skill is to sketch out the intricate emotional web against the bright bold untouchable figure of the artist. . . Her achievement is to let that sense of a man living with his craft shine through on every page: the result is an exceptionally honest and warm portrait. ' Financial Times