March 2001 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | History | Foreign Parts | History | General Biography John Gribbin It All Began in Africa The Man who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois By Pat Shipman Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the Course of Evolution By Garniss Curtis, Carl Swisher and Roger Lewin LR History Kathleen Burk How Much do We Want to Know? The First World War, Volume I: To Arms By Hew Strachan LR Foreign Parts Sarah Wheeler A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals Selkirk's Island By Diana Southami LR History John Clay Women At Sea The Floating Brothel By Siân Rees LR General A C Grayling The Shadows Lengthen The Grammars of Creation By George Steiner LR Roy Porter An Enchanted World The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe By Stephen Wilson LR
John Gribbin It All Began in Africa The Man who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois By Pat Shipman Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the Course of Evolution By Garniss Curtis, Carl Swisher and Roger Lewin LR
Roy Porter An Enchanted World The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe By Stephen Wilson LR
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