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Discovery and Invention

Kanguru!

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

Extracts from Literature

Pure Selfishness

The brilliant but dangerously obsessive Dr Griffin decides that the end justifies the means.

Lives of the Saints

Passover to Pentecost

St Bede explains how the Exodus and the Ten Commandments are related to Easter and Whitsuntide.

Extracts from Literature

One False Step

Louisa Musgrove thought she had hit on a sure method of winning Captain Wentworth’s affections.

Extracts from Literature

The Living Past

High above the roof of the Amazonian rainforest, Professor Challenger sees something that eerily reminds him of home.

Lives of the Saints

Lost Innocence

In the fourth century, Britain’s Christians acquired a taste for watering down the mystery of their message.