It's often hard to find something to defend about the British Empire. Yes, there were massacres, but you have to admire the gumption...
This book comes from the days when slaying an endangered big cat was termed 'A Good Bag' and a sentence was not complete without the word 'jolly' in it.
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BIBLIOPHILE is an
irregular series of posts looking at the rare, handsome and plain
darn weird world of books.
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