The Annotated Carmilla

The Annotated Carmilla

In 1872, fully twenty five years before Bram Stoker finished his Dracula, another Irish writer penned a vampire tale that created many new elements in the genre.  Before Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, no story had told events from the victim's point of view.  None had ever suggested to be bitten by a vampire might feel erotic. 

Just as no story before had ever contained a professional vampire hunter. 

Most agree it created the lesbian vampire genre.

But because the book was written so long ago, it references many things the modern reader might not understand.  Where is Styria, for example?  When one speaks of a horse carriage, what are the traces?  What is a myrmidon?  

The Annotated Carmilla answers those questions and more.  More than four hundred footnotes provide not only answers to obscure questions, but point out patterns and questions not immediately obvious to the first time reader--such as the pattern of when the full moon occurs in the story, which proves rather important!  At the same time it points out the many unsolved mysteries in the text, as well as some possible solutions.

Also included are long essays on the life of Le Fanu (this was his final work) and the history of Carmilla amidst the vampire in film, television and fiction.

Available at Amazon in kind format here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-Carmilla-ebook/dp/B0058V6MG2

Or you can get the softcover book right here:  https://www.createspace.com/3507727
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Sir David Attenborough Antarctic Notebooks Book Launch

Sir David Attenborough at the

Edward Wilson’s Antarctic Notebooks

Book launch

Sir David was speaking at the launch of Edward Wilson's Antarctic Notebooks, a book by Dr Wilson's great-nephews David and Chris Wilson reproducing his sketches and watercolours from his expeditions to the Antarctic with Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

Dr Wilson was Scott's chief scientific officer on the second expedition, facing down freezing conditions and snow blindness to depict the continent and its wildlife, and died alongside him during their return from the South Pole in 1912.

Edward Wilson's Antarctic Notebooks (Reardon Publishing) was launched at the London Wetlands Centre by Sir David Attenborough, who was interviewed on ITV Meridian for the launch. Edward Wilson took part in two British expeditions to Antarctica, the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition) and the (Terra Nova Expedition), both under the leadership of Captain Scott, (Book Authors David and Christopher Wilson)

ISBN 9781874192510 Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott aboard 'Discovery' (1901-1904), he became the last in a long tradition of 'exploration artists' from an age when pencil and water-colour were the main methods of producing accurate scientific records of new lands and animal species. He combined scientific, topographical and landscape techniques to produce accurate and beautiful images of the last unknown continent. Such was the strength of his work that it also helped to found the tradition of modern wildlife painting. In particular Wilson captured the essence of the flight and motion of Southern Ocean sea-birds on paper. Returning with Captain Scott aboard 'Terra Nova' (1910-1913) as Chief of Scientific Staff, he continued to record the continent and its wildlife with extraordinary deftness. Chosen to accompany Captain Scott to the South Pole, his last drawings are from one of the most famous epic journeys in exploration history. Along with his scientific work, Wilson's pencil recorded the finding of Roald Amundsen's tent at the South Pole by Captain Scott. Wilson died, along with the other members of the British Pole Party, during the return journey, in March 1912. Many of the images in this book are rarely seen or are previously unpublished. The drawings and paintings were created at considerable personal cost in the freezing conditions in which Wilson worked. He often suffered severely from the cold whilst sketching and also from snow-blindness, or sunburn of the eye. They provide a remarkable testament to one of the great figures of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The book has been produced as a companion volume to 'Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks' by two of Wilson's great nephews, to mark the centenary of his death. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: ARTIST: Illustrations by Edward Wilson ILLUSTRATIONS: 500paintings, drawings

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