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With his unique combination of hilarious stories and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Here are four of his classic favourites for the first time on CD read by the zany Adrian Admondson. The four classic favourites on this CD are: The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Green Eggs and Ham Fox in Socks Complete with...

Vermeer's Hat written by Timothy Brook performed by Malcolm Hillgartner on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Vermeer's Hat written by Timothy Brook performed by Malcolm Hillgartner on Audio CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781491586600
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  506 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Timothy Brook
Performer 1:  Malcolm Hillgartner

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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue and white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty—but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an...

expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China—prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's.

In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

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