The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works deal largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans. Henry James, the son of a theologian and the brother of t...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
THERE can be few more flamboyant gap-year expeditions than that of Ollie and Jules Campbell. Not for them the hazy delights of Goa or of teaching English in Timbuktu. The brothers spent 40 days meandering across 600 miles of Patagonia on horseback,...
The two noisily waspish American sisters - whom I had dubbed Scylla and Charybdis - and their friend, Catherine (of Oregon), had conceived an unhealthy interest in my bottom. We were fellow guests at the sumptuous explora en Patagonia in deepest Patagonia, and "How's...
Paleontologists have found in the Patagonia region in northwestern Argentina the skeleton of a new species of giant sauropod dinosaur which lived 88 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period, scientists announced Monday. A team of Argentine and Brazilian paleontologists has...
A Jewish human rights group launched a "last chance" hunt for surviving Nazis in South America on Tuesday, hoping to track down perpetrators of genocide before they die of old age."The passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators," said Efraim...
