Table of Contents: “…Episodic nationalism -- A national tale -- Chronicles of Wallace -- Hary's Tale -- Fixing the type -- The Scottish chiefs -- A distant tale -- The feminised nation -- Tall stories -- The people's tale -- A nationalist tale -- Moving image.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Campanian volcanoes : in the beginning -- The Avellino eruption : a prelude to Pompeii -- The eruption in AD 79 : the day of wrath -- From antiquity to the Renaissance : tall stories -- The eruption of Monte Nuovo : a new approach -- The eruption in 1631 : the Counter Reformation -- The old cities rediscovered : antiquity protected -- Hamilton and Vesuvius : volcano-watching -- Vesuvius as a tourist attraction : the Grand Tour -- Persistent activity, 1822-1944 : scientific scrutiny -- The Campi Flegrei : an eruption that failed -- The future : the eruption to be avoided -- Appendix 1. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Forward / by John Wayne -- Long trail: a top hand for the old west -- The devil beasts -- Whip and spur: incantation for a branding iron -- Birth of the cowboy -- Lure of the wilds: where the tall stories grow -- Rembrandt of the longhorns: a heritage of western songs -- Home corral: a legacy of the middle ages -- Will James: the lone cowboy: ghosts ride with lonely men -- Far places: a kindred soul of the cowboy -- In the saddle: a mirage painter in Palm Springs -- Cowpunchers in cartoons: "Dreams of long ago" -- The cowboy hall of fame -- Cowboy artists of America -- Eternal forms: strange birth of s stallion -- Persistant Charro: mighty outlaws in "horse heaven" -- Big roundup: children carry on cowboy art -- The vanishing Mustang: the Spanish Mustang canters onward -- Vaya con Dios -- Salutations and supplications -- Cowboy art museums and galleries.…”

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