This Week's Acquisitions
- Gregory Norminton, Ship of Fools (Sceptre, 2002). Where are these people going? It's The Canterbury Tales, only the pilgrimage is not quite so holy. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Tom McCarthy, C (Vintage, 2011). Strange adventures of young Serge Carrefax, generally involving the letter "c." (Lift Bridge)
- Michael Clark, Albion and Jerusalem: The Anglo-Jewish Community in the Post-Emancipation Era (Oxford, 2009). History of England's Jews during the second half of the nineteenth century, including their involvement in politics and activism. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Mark Lussier, Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Tracks growing interest in Buddhism among European intellectuals and analyzes how the knowledge thereof made it to Europe in the first place. (Review copy)