{"title":"Jacky Colliss Harvey","description":"\u003cp\u003eJacky Colliss Harvey’s work invites readers on journeys that blend history, personal reflection, and vivid exploration. With titles like \u003cem\u003eWalking Pepys's London\u003c\/em\u003e, she uncovers layers of the past through intimate narratives and detailed travelogue, bringing historical moments to life in contemporary settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer books often cross boundaries between \u003cstrong\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTravel \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/strong\u003e, creating richly textured stories that engage both the intellect and the imagination. Expect thoughtful meditations on place, memory, and identity woven through her distinctive narrative voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"red-by-jacky-colliss-harvey-9781579129965","title":"Red","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mere mention of red hair or red-headedness conjures vivid associations. Stereotypes range from the fun-loving scatterbrain Lucille Ball to the largely mythologised Viking savage. There are the fiery-tempered shrews or penitent prostitutes (Mary Magdalene is almost always depicted as a redhead), and comic foils and long-suffering sidekicks, like Danny Partridge (\u003cem\u003eThe Partridge Family\u003c\/em\u003e), Ron Weasley (\u003cem\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/em\u003e), Jimmy Olsen (\u003cem\u003eSuperman\u003c\/em\u003e), and Sideshow Bob (\u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e), to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the first use of the term 'redde-headed' can be traced as far back as the sixteenth century, the chromosome responsible for red hair was identified only as recently as 1995. For its first 50,000-year existence, red hair had always been viewed as an unaccountable mystery. As is often the case with the inexplicable, it has been hailed as a sign of divinity, damned as the consequence of breaking sexual taboos, ostracised and persecuted as a marker of religion or race, and vilified or celebrated as an indicator of character. \u003cem\u003eRed: A Natural History of the Redhead\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to explore these prejudices and to trace the entire world history of red hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in pre-history, following the gene for red hair as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora, emerging as an evolutionary advantage under Northern skies. It then explores red hair in the ancient world, from the Tarim mummies in China to the Islamic kingdom of the Khazars and their possible contribution to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. It examines the prejudice manifested against red hair across medieval Europe and red hair during the Renaissance as both an indicator of Jewishness during the Inquisition and, simultaneously, the height of fashion in Protestant England, made famous by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the book moves into the modern age of science, art, and literature, it presents the first positive symbols of red hair in children's characters such as Orphan Annie and Anne of Green Gables. It explores the emergence of red hair as shorthand for a woman of sexual boldness or an other-worldly nature. The narrative also touches on modern medicine and science, looking into the genetic and chemical decoding of red hair. Finally, it discusses red hair in contemporary culture, from advertising and exploitation to 'gingerism' and the new movement against bullying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849926758636,"sku":"9781579129965","price":50.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6177153482750.jpg?v=1759062954"},{"product_id":"walking-pepyss-london-by-jacky-colliss-harvey-9781913368289","title":"Walking Pepys's London","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking Pepys's London\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003ePepys’s London\u003c\/em\u003e, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. 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And because it is a book about walking and writing, it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that exists between mind and feet, and about moving through a landscape that can be both physically in front of you and exist in a line of words or the flight of a line of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince all this walking and writing and thinking must have somewhere to take place, it is also a book about Suffolk, where I come from as a writer. So it also has something in it of the journal, the writer's notebook; a little of the memoir and a little of the love letter. You might call it the literary biography of a landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou may follow the walks on foot, with this book in your backpack perhaps, for those moments when walking must give way to reading, or you can follow them from within the deep comfort of a favourite armchair. You will travel in it from west to east, from chalk plain to crag; from velvety farmlands muffled by leaves to deafening shingle and uncompromising sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will be in excellent company—the walkers who will join you along the way range from Daniel Defoe and Robert Louis Stevenson to Patricia Highsmith, Maggie Hemingway, Rebecca Solnit and Noreen Masud. They include the poets George Crabbe, Robert Bloomfield, Algernon Swinburne, Stevie Smith and Blake Morrison; the literary greats Wilkie Collins, George Orwell and W. G. Sebald, who found a new native land here; and those born to it, such as M. R. James and Edward Fitzgerald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll have their own thoughts, their own connections and reflections to add to the conversation. 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