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Robert Blackwood Robertson • 3 Items / 2 Books, 1 Article
Of Whales and Men (1954)
by R.B. Robertson
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    "Strange Men in Peculiar Jobs" (Review)
    Jeannette Mirsky
    Of Whales and Men, by R.B. Robertson
    1. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
    The Nation, July 17, 1954, p. 55
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    The Slaughter of Leviathan (Review)
    William McFee
    Of Whales and Men, by R.B. Robertson
    1. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
    The Saturday Review, May 22, 1954, p. 19
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    The Lives of the Hunters (3 Reviews)
    Gordon Cuyler
    Of Whales and Men, by R.B. Robertson
    1. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
    2. The Buffalo Hunters by Mari Sandoz
    3. Coro-Coro: The World of the Scarlet Ibis by Paul A. Zahl
    The American Scholar, Spring 1955, pp. 220-225
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    Brief Comments (12 Reviews)
    Twelve outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent by Henry Steele Commager
    2. The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith
    3. Bleeding Kansas by Alice Nichols
    4. European Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Paul Hazard
    5. The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch
    6. Bottle in the Sea by Albert Leon Guerard
    7. The Origins of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud, Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris, ...
    8. The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
    9. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
    10. The Widows of Thornton by Peter Taylor
    11. A Seed Upon the Wind by William Michelfelder
    12. The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1954, pp. 494-504
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    The New Books (17 Reviews)
    Gilbert Highet
    Whales, Gypsies, Children
    1. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
    2. In Sara's Tents by Walter Starkie
    3. The Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca
    4. Child with a Flower by Elda Bossi
    5. The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch
    6. The Transformation of the Scientific World View by Karl Heim
    7. Bless This House by Norah Lofts
    8. A Pride of Lions by John Brooks
    9. The White Knight by Alexander L. Taylor
    10. The Caroline Affair by C.H. Gibbs-Smith
    11. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
    12. Persona Grata by Cecil Beaton and Kenneth Tynan
    13. The Old Country Store by Gerald Carson
    14. A Time to Laugh by Laurence Victor Thompson
    15. The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert
    16. Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
    17. Perdu by Paride Rombi
    The Harpers Monthly, May 1954, pp. 94-103