Stories
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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A poem occasion'd by the rise and fall of South-Sea stock. Humbly dedicated to the merchant-adventurers trading in the south-seas. By J. B Gent.
J. B., Gent.Date: 1720- Books
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Chirurgus marinus: or, the sea-chirurgion. Being instructions to junior chirurgic practitioners, who design to serve at sea in this imploy. In two general parts. The First Part contains Necessary Directions, how the Chirurgion should furnish himself with Medicines, Instruments, and Necessaries, fit for that Office; together with a Medicinal Catalogue, and an Exemplary Invoyce. The Second Part contains the Surgions Practice at Sea; which Practical part serves as well at Land as at Sea. The fourth edition, newly corrected and inlarged, with several useful additions. By John Moyle Sen. One of Her Majesties Ancient Sea-Chirurgions.
Moyle, John.Date: 1702- Books
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A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711. Containing A Journal of all the remarkable Transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca Ship, and other Prizes: An Account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone four Years and four Months in an Island; and a brief Description of several Countries in our Course noted for Trade, especially in the South-Sea. With maps of all the Coast, from the best Spanish Manuscript Draughts. And an Introduction relating to the South-Sea Trade. By Captain Woodes Rogers, Commander in Chief in this Expedition, with the Ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol.
Rogers, Woodes, -1732.Date: M.DCC.XVIII. [1718]- Books
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Jesina. or, delusive gold. A pastoral. Lamenting the misfortunes of a young lady of quality, ruined by South-Sea stock. By Mr. Foxton.
Foxton, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The south Sea fortune, or the chaplain advanced to the saddle. Containing the genuine private memoirs of a worthy family in Gloucestershire, fro the fatal year 1720, to the year 1748. Written by Mrs. Richwould, one of the most interested parties. Vol. I.
Richwould, Mrs.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]