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At Last is a nineteenth-century travel narrative associated with the West Indies, built around the experience of finally reaching a destination that has long existed in the imagination of the traveller. The journey becomes an opportunity to describe landscapes, towns, climate, people, customs
Scientific Essays and Lectures brings together Charles Kingsley’s attempts to connect scientific observation with broader questions about education, nature, religion, and human understanding. Kingsley was a clergyman and writer, but he also took a serious interest in natural history, and his
The Water-Babies is a strange Victorian children’s fantasy that combines fairy tale, social criticism, natural history, and Christian moral ideas. Tom, a young chimney sweep, lives a harsh life shaped by poverty and exploitation
Town Geology is Charles Kingsley’s attempt to teach readers how to see geological evidence in the places where they already live. Instead of sending the reader to remote mountains or quarries, Kingsley looks at roads, buildings, stones, walls, excavations, and other ordinary features of towns
Yeast is Charles Kingsley’s social novel about a young upper-class man who becomes increasingly disturbed by the poverty and injustice he encounters in rural England. Lancelot Smith’s inherited assumptions about society begin to break down when he meets people whose lives are shaped by hunger
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