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- Van Bayeren, master of fish...
- Abraham van Beyeren
- Abraham van Beyeren
- De Heem, more background
- De Heem, oysters with grapes
- De Heem, oysters with fruit
- De Heem, oysters with grapes
- De Heem, oysters with flowers
- De Heem, oysters with pipe
- De Heem, oysters with pomegranite
- Painting food to feed the artist
- Claesz, with cat again
- Claesz in lavish mode
- Peter Claesz
- Clara Peters, fish and cat
- De Heem's still life with glass
- The Dutch masters
- Pearls, currency of monarchy
- Goyinges down the river...
- The mystery of Wellfleet
- On the nature of westness
- Laws dissolve in estuarine waters
- Royal patronage
- Early cultivation
- Oysters with stout
- Medieval customs
- The Cinque ports (well 23 actually)
- Early trade, early invasions
- Links to Europe
- The Thames
- Oyster gardening
- The plankton cocktail
- Why oyster reefs are good for estuaries
- Anatomy
- Still life and landscape
- Oysters with lemon peel,
- The English pearl
- Vanity to veneration
- Rutupians from Reculver
- 800 ships, five legions amd 2,000 horses
- The Veneti
- One cruet of sharpe vinegar
- Valeria Messalina and the harbour of vice
- Early cultivation
- Lucrine oysters
- The Phoenicians
- Watchet blue
- The City of Lions
- The edge of the world
- Those feet in ancient time
- The Basques
- Paviland man
- From Boyne to Carnac
- Celts, megaliths and Phoenicians
- Nutrition, better than steak, milk, spinach or liver
- Comb berries and diatoms
- Beyond Persia
- Pearls in the ancient middle east
- The Red Sea, BC 7th century
- The immortal maiden
- How a pearl is formed
- Pliny's misconceit
- The gates of heaven
- Perfect as the moon
- Of empresses and paupers
- Reflections on the water
- The language of oysters
- For flesh and shell
- The oyster poor boy
- The oystercatcher
- Predators
- Attachment
- Spawning
- Aldous Huxley
- On the nature of bisexuality
- Oysters spawn in the spring, when the waters start...
- Ecology
- The covemen
- The Palaeozoic survivorThe pearl oysters are pinc...
- Portland stoneBetween the ooid lime sand dunes dis...
- A glimpse into pre-historyBefore history, before m...
- Another uniqueness
- The old world Chapter 1 In the beginning
- A taste of the Neolithic
- Of cabbages and kings
- Gather round...start here
- Pronounciations
- The Craic
- Seamus Healey
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