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Dominic Smith
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In 1897, the year my new novel Bright and Distant Shores begins, a family of six Greenland Inuit disembarked from a ship at a dock in New York City while a curious crowd of thousands looked on.
They had been shipped to the city under the auspices of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary. Franz Boas, who was then working at the American Museum of Natural History, had asked Peary to bring back a singl... read more »
They had been shipped to the city under the auspices of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary. Franz Boas, who was then working at the American Museum of Natural History, had asked Peary to bring back a singl... read more »
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The Beautiful Miscellaneous
   3.47 avg rating — 409 ratings
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2007
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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2006
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Bright and Distant Shores
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2011
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The Beautiful Miscellaneous
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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Paediatrics at a Glance
by Lawrence Miall, Mary Rudolf, Dominic Smith (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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2003
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October 2009,
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" What Readers want to know... SS: If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? DS: Sailing off the Amalfi Coast in Italy. SS: What are your most overused words or phrases? DS: Oh, God, when I read back over my writing a..." ...More
" What Readers want to know... SS: If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? DS: Sailing off the Amalfi Coast in Italy. SS: What are your most overused words or phrases? DS: Oh, God, when I read back over my writing a..." ...More
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“Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.”
― Dominic Smith, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
― Dominic Smith, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
“The body thinks it’s real. That’s the problem of modern physics. How to convince our minds that they’re not our own.”
― Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
― Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
“Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything’s possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there’s no more empty space?”
― Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
― Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
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