Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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What the Signalman Saw

The guardian of a lonely signalbox recounts a truly haunting experience.

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Thundering Smoke

David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.

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Africa’s Competitive Edge

Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.

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The Missing Stair

David Balfour hopes his crusty uncle Ebenezer is beginning to soften towards him.

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St Nicholas Scotches a Rumour

Three highly decorated officers in the Roman Army fall victim to a campaign to discredit them.

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Recognition

Just as Richard Hannay was steeling himself to report failure in the hunt for a German agent, a stranger’s eye caught his own.