Set in the second World War, this story is appealing in its simplicity yet powerful in its implications. A young boy and his mother are on a train bound for the countryside, away from their London home which has been destroyed in a bombing raid. During their journey they meet an unassuming stranger to whomContinue reading “Book Review: ‘An Eagle in the Snow’ by Michael Morpurgo”
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Exotic Lands and Mysterious Cultures: Ancient China
Recently I finished reading a book about “The Forbidden City” and this coincided with a BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Melvyn Bragg about the first western missionary to China, the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. I heard that Matteo Ricci set out from Portugal to convert China to Christianity in 1584, and published a bookContinue reading “Exotic Lands and Mysterious Cultures: Ancient China”
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