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The Dons - Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (Paperback)
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The Dons - Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (Paperback)
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Loot Price R289
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A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons
of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of
ideas. Rich in anecdote, and displaying all the author's customary
mastery of his subject, The Dons is Noel Annan at his erudite,
encyclopedic and entertaining best. The book is a kaleidoscope of
wonderful vignettes illustrating the brilliance and eccentricities
of some of the greatest figures of British university life. Here is
Buckland dropping to his knees to lick the supposed patch of
martyr's blood in an Italian cathedral and remarking, 'I can tell
you what it is; it's bat's urine.' Or the granitic Master of
Balliol, A.D. Lindsay, whose riposte on finding himself in a
minority of one at a College meeting was, 'I see we are
deadlocked'. But, entertaining as it is, The Dons also has a more
serious purpose. No other book has ever explained so precisely -
and so amusingly - why the dons matter, and the importance of the
role they have played in the shaping of British higher education
over the past two centuries.
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