This Barnes and Noble University course explores the author's life and the book's history, and includes an analysis of the text and its characters, and an exploration of Tolkien's influence on 20th Century literature. Despite being published in 1918, Willian Strunk Junior's famous 'Elements of Style' contains sound advice that is still relevant today, especially for formal writing. The book concentrates on common mistakes in the use of the English language. In honor of the late, great Douglas Adams, this month's featured site is a project inspired by his famous novel and radio play, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. The site is a mixture of both humorous and serious short articles which make up an encyclopedia of everything.
Entries range from the storage of eggs, to diabetes, to the best place to buy a beer in Australia.
His boat became lodged in ice, and he and his crew lived on an iceburg for over a year, before Shackleton and a few others went for help, surviving a mammoth trek with only one old rope and nails in their shoes to aid walking in snow.