Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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‘The Overland Mail’

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

1040

The Sneeze of History

It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.

1041

Big Spenders

Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.

1042

The Glorious First of June

Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.

1043

Kanguru!

James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.

1044

Heracles and the Cattle of Geryon

Heracles must get the better of a three-bodied giant and steal his cattle.