Paul Simpson Housley: 3 books
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate...
Writing the City
Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.
Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of...
Antarctica
Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
A scene so wildly and awfully desolate...it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts" - so Scott perceived the stark Antarctic landscape in 1905.
Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps of Terra Australis Incognita up to Amundsen's arrival at 90 degrees South....