Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The climate science is clear. Global warming is an urgent and largely man-made problem. The same science shows that, without a comprehensive global response, within a few short decades, death-dealing runaway global heating is absolutely assured. Unhappily it is equally obvious that the chance of the necessary action being taken is precisely zero! The result of this is that, during the lifetime of your grandchildren, the sweeping aside of human civilisation through a succession of climate wars will become assured. By 2100 humanity, battered by an array of catastrophic climate disasters, will have witnessed a grim cull of billions of its numbers. This future is not science fiction. The unforgiving thesis of this book is that the climate science and today's facts on the ground, lead inextricably to such a nightmarish tomorrow for our grandchildren - and it is my generation above all others, that will have done it to them.

Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) was the most eminent of the British diplomats sent as Ambassador to Spain in the eighteenth century. This book, originally published in 1933, reproduces the text of his personal correspondence from 1730 to his death. The letters cover a wide variety of subjects, both diplomatic and more intimate, and will be of value to anyone with an interest in British relations with Spain up to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.