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nuclearshill gau/cho 3mo ago (image post) Edited 3mo ago 354 thread views #290398

On pretty covers

!bookworms do you guys occasionally spend more money to get pretty editions of books you like or want to read?

Pic related is from a hardcover edition of "The Origin of the Species" I found at the bookstore and loved. :marseydarwin:

I recently ordered a copy of Kafka's "The Trial" by the same publisher "Martin Claret".

Also, I think the Brazilian edition of the book "Vikings: Children of Elm and Ash" by Neil Price looks better than the American edition.

This one in English

And this is the Brazilian by "Crítica" which I have. It's a paperback, but I still think it's pretty.

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ResneedingSyndrome CQ/QT Qui bibit sanctus est 3mo ago #6816806

Darwin on Brazil:

One day I took a canoe, and proceeded up one of the channels to visit it; I found the old town from its situation both sweeter and cleaner than that of Pernambuco. I must here commemorate what happened for the first time during our nearly five years' wandering, namely, having met with a want of politeness. I was refused in a sullen manner at two different houses, and obtained with difficulty from a third, permission to pass through their gardens to an uncultivated hill, for the purpose of viewing the country. I feel glad that this happened in the land of the Brazilians, for I bear them no good will—a land also of slavery, and therefore of moral debasement. A Spaniard would have felt ashamed at the very thought of refusing such a request, or of behaving to a stranger with rudeness.