• The Islands of Unwisdom is an historical novel by Robert Graves, published in 1949. It was also published in the UK as The Isles of Unwisdom. It is a reconstruction...
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    and fabric designer. Born Annie Mary Pryde Nicholson, she was the only daughter of the artists Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. She had three brothers...
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    Robert Graves (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Merton)
    1946. Watch the North Wind Rise. New York: Creative Age Press, 1949; as Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. The Islands of Unwisdom. New York:...
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  • Isabel Barreto (category History of the Marquesas Islands)
    18. Guam, January 1, 1596. Manila, February 11. The voyage's story is told in The Islands of Unwisdom, an historical novel by Robert Graves. Hiatt, Alfred;...
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    Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (category Portuguese explorers of the Pacific)
    expedition in his historical novel, The Islands of Unwisdom, written in 1949. In its introduction he describes his sources. The Spanish Navy gunboat Quirós,...
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  • Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo The Heart of Jade (El Corazón de piedra verde) by Salvador de Madariaga The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves (Álvaro de...
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    Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (category History of the Marquesas Islands)
    voyage is told in The Islands of Unwisdom, a historical novel by Robert Graves. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós Hilder, Brett (1980). The Voyage of Torres. St. Lucia...
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    political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible." Keynes had been the principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris...
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    to recognise the unwisdom of perpetuating a suicidal strife which sacrificed them to religious bigotry and the political exigencies of English partie...
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