The Whale; The Ladybird Books Story – TV review

"Thar she blows!" said one of the crew as a whale came to the surface. The cetacean wasn't the only thing blowing heavily in The Whale (BBC1), a 90-minute dramatisation of the sinking of the Essex, a Nantucket whaler, by a sperm whale in the Pacific. This was the shipwreck that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick; the BBC film was so laboured it only served to unintentionally remind me of Melville's genius.

The Whale felt like a big-screen movie epic trapped inside a relatively small-budget TV programme; the vastness of the ocean, skies and the whales got hopelessly lost. Worse still, it was structurally flawed, unable to make up its mind whether it was a rite-of-passage story for the young Tom Nickerson on his first voyage, a clash of wills between the two leads – the smouldering First Mate Chase and the even more smouldering Captain Pollard – talking in pirate-speak or Orca Strikes Back. Inevitably, it fell between every stool.

The biggest disappointment was the whale itself. The whale scenes had been filmed by the BBC's natural history unit and they looked like it. They were beautiful, precise and graceful and wouldn't have been out of place in a David Attenborough film. What there wasn't was any sense of the menace or personality that had captured Melville's imagination and was supposed to be present here.

When the whale attacked the boat, it came from out of the blue rather than from the sailors' perceptions they were locked in a struggle that the whale had made personal. As soon as the Essex sunk, the whale was out of sight and out of shot. It was forgotten by everyone, until the mariners had been floating round in the Pacific for several weeks – not, initially at least, appearing to experience much discomfort in their small open lifeboat – when the voiceover declared: "We all wondered if the whale was following us still." The whale must have been as surprised as I was to hear that.

The voiceover was another issue. Presumably because the BBC felt it was in need of a big-name star on which to sell the film, Martin Sheen had been roped in for a curiously lifeless cameo as the ageing Tom Nickerson, recounting his adventures to an unseen audience. All that was required was for Sheen to deliver deathless cliches, such as: "There is a darkness, blacker than the blackest night," straight to camera, a feat he managed without embarrassment. Though as Sheen's face is now so rigid, displays of emotion are probably beyond him. Long before the last remaining survivors were picked up, I was cursing the whale for not having done the job properly an hour previously.

I don't think that the Ladybird book series ever got round to doing a retelling of Moby Dick for children, but the company has managed to encompass almost everything else since it produced its first title during the first world war. For many of us who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, Ladybird books were our first literary love. For some of us, it's a relationship that continues to this day. I still can't resist dipping into my 1963 edition of Captain Scott, An Adventure from History; it gave me an enthusiasm for polar literature that has never dimmed. It was the book that taught me that it was far, far better to fail heroically and die than plan sensibly and come first: a lesson I have carried with me throughout my life.

The Ladybird Books Story: How Britain Got the Reading Bug (BBC4), the latest in the consistently good Timeshift series, was a heartwarming exercise in nostalgia. It outlined how the company began with a format to make the most of paper during the war shortages and became every parent's go-to source for learning-to-read schemes, history, science and nature books. But these were mostly jumping-off points for contributors such as Andrew Motion, Chris Packham and our own Lucy Mangan to talk of the meaning and impact these books had to and on their childhoods.

The Ladybird legacy has been far more powerful than any government initiative. A whole generation of children grew up learning Ladybird History. I'm surprised Michael Gove hasn't placed the books about Florence Nightingingale, Charles II and Sir Francis Drake on the national curriculum. And it's not just the younger generation who have reaped the benefits. During the Falklands war the army handed out copies of the Ladybird How to Read a Map for all those soldiers who were a bit lost near Goose Green. Ladybird: serving the nation faithfully for nearly 100 years. Long may it last.

Bavaria Ends Funding for Scholarly Edition of 'Mein Kampf'

BERLIN—Bavaria's regional government has ended its funding for a controversial book release: a new, annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," which hasn't been published in Germany since World War II.

The wealthy South German state of Bavaria—which holds the copyright until 2015—had been planning to co-publish an edition of the book with historians' notes highlighting the flaws and falsehoods in Hitler's arguments, in an effort to get ahead of other potential editions that might be released once the copyright expires. But this week, Bavaria decided the plan to publish Hitler's manifesto in Germany for the first time since 1945 sends a wrong signal, at a time when German authorities are trying to outlaw the extreme-right National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD.

"I can't file a request to ban the NPD [at the constitutional court] in Karlsruhe and then associate our Bavarian coat of arms with the distribution of 'Mein Kampf'. That's bad," Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer told the state legislature this week.

Bavaria and Germany's other federal states are seeking to ban the NPD at the country's highest court, arguing that the party is "spiritually related" to the Nazis and seeks to subvert democracy. The NPD denies the charge.

The effort to ban the NPD comes amid renewed national soul-searching about the persistence of extreme-right ideology on the fringes of German politics. The debate was spurred in part by a criminal investigation and parliamentary inquiry into a spree of murders of immigrants by neo-Nazis, which police failed to solve for many years.

In an about-turn, the Bavarian science and education ministry this week announced it will pull out of the project to publish a critical edition of Hitler's book, citing respect for the feelings of victims of the Holocaust and their families.

Historians argue that a critical, annotated edition of Mein Kampf is essential to countering many of the falsehoods and anti-Semitic claims that Hitler makes in the book. Supporters of the planned publication say Bavarian officials' fears that the book's re-release will incite hatred today are overdone.

The planned two-volume edition, heavy with academic annotations, is unlikely to appeal to far-right activists today, said Richard Evans, historian at Cambridge University.

Mein Kampf is also "very boring" to read and unsuited for rabble-rousing in today's Germany, Prof. Evans said.

In 2012, Bavaria pledged €500,000 ($687,546) in public funding for the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History, of IfZ, to produce a critical, annotated version of "Mein Kampf" for publication in 2015 when the copyright expires.

Bavarian finance minister Markus Söder said at the time that the publication would aim to "demystify" Hilter's manifesto.

The IfZ institute says it will carry on with the project even though the public funding will end, citing the importance of Hitler's treatise as an historical source. It won't have to repay state money handed out so far.

IfZ director Andreas Wirsching said on Thursday that he hopes the critical edition will "break down the propaganda in the work and make it transparent."

"Mein Kampf," which translates as "My Struggle," dates from the mid-1920s and outlined Hitler's radical anti-Semitic views, as well as his vision for German dominance in Europe.

Most Nazi symbols and paraphernalia are outlawed in Germany, including the swastikas and the stiff-arm Nazi salute. Mein Kampf isn't banned. Germans can already read it on the Internet, and buy it overseas or in secondhand bookshops.

But Bavaria has blocked the publication and sale of new copies in Germany since 1945.

Copyright expires 70 years after an author's death, meaning Bavarian authorities will lose their copyright from the end of 2015, seven decades after Hitler committed suicide in the final days of the war.

But the Bavarian government says it will continue to ban publication and distribution of the book in Germany through the courts, arguing that it incites ethnic hatred. It says it will make an exception for scholarly versions aimed at academics, such as the IfZ's edition.

The best drink books of 2013

Oddbins used to stock a wine in the late 1990s called Kiwi Cuvée. It was a sauvignon blanc from the south of France designed to taste as if it came from New Zealand. This summed up the direction wine was going in at the time. Supermarkets sold wine made to a formula and at the top end highly paid consultants created lush "iconic" wines for well-heeled collectors. There were still plenty of interesting wines out there, but the received opinion, not least from the EU, was that unfashionable vines such as Carignan should be ripped out to be replaced with Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. This homogenising trend is thankfully over. Variety is now everything. Tesco even has a half decent Old Vine Carignan in its Finest range. Whereas once the concept of terroir – a sense of place – was mocked by Anglos as a marketing device used by the French to sell wine without any fruit character, these days it's used without ironic quotation marks around the globe (though my spellcheck still tries to change it to "terrier").
The World Atlas of Wine

It couldn't be a better time, therefore, for Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson to publish the latest (seventh) edition of The World Atlas of Wine (Mitchell Beazley). It is a very different book to the last edition and now includes detailed maps of some of the most exciting emerging regions – such as Croatia, the district around Mount Etna in Sicily, and Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, which is rivalling Burgundy for its elegant Pinot Noirs. Cannily, there are two pages on China. The book is a celebration of terroir and a logical companion to Robinson's Wine Grapes (2012) – an expensive and exhaustive encyclopedia of every grape variety in the world. There's an infectious sense of glee about this new atlas. I get the impression that Johnson and, in particular, Robinson with her humorous pedantry, really enjoyed writing it.

The other new edition of a classic worth noting is Alex Liddell's Madeira, the Mid-Atlantic Wine (C Hurst & Co). Madeira is a wine whose long and colourful history you can actually taste – 18th-century wines from this island are both quite easy to find, and still drinkable.
World's Best Cider

It's not only wine in which variety is being rediscovered. Fifteen years ago it was quite hard to get a decent pint of bitter in London, let alone proper cider, but recently a new wave of pubs have opened dedicated to craft products. Cider, for a long time drunk only by teenagers in bus shelters and the Wurzels, is now attracting serious attention. Best known for his beer writing, Pete Brown has produced World's Best Cider with Bill Bradshaw (Jacqui Small). Although it looks like a coffee-table book with lots of photos – many of them stunning – it's also written with wit, knowledge and passion. You might even go as far as to describe Brown and Bradshaw as the Johnson and Robinson of cider. I had no idea that cider was so widespread outside the three cider superpowers of England, France and Spain. The Germans make cider and express surprise that anyone else does, the Irish drink the most cider per head and in Quebec they make a super-sweet ice cider. It's not all good news though, as it is shocking how few actual apples go into some commercial brands. Nevertheless, one gets the impression that cider is currently the most exciting drink in Britain and is only going to get better. Growers are still trying to match the best apple varieties to the right land, just as grape growers did in Bordeaux and Burgundy generations ago.

It's a great time to be drinking but it's not necessarily a great time to be reading about drink. This year saw far too many books along the lines of "200 Wines to Impress your Father-in-law" or "A Beginner's Guide to Craft Beer". Most were illustrated and designed to be easily marketed to English language readers worldwide. They're all starting to look alike, just as the products they celebrate are becoming increasingly diverse. Drink books are now either for gifts or reference. What is lacking is the sort of book that you want to read in bed – an Elizabeth David or Jeffrey Steingarten of wine, perhaps – to make you smile, think and, rather than trying to educate, assumes a certain knowledge and interest on the part of the reader. There are lots of people writing about drink in an interesting way on the internet. There are even some Americans trying to combine comedy with wine, albeit not very successfully. None of these writers, however, are producing engaging books for the general reader.
Sediment Guide to Wining and Dining

The two books I enjoyed most this year didn't come from traditional publishers. Reds, Whites & Varsity Blues: 60 Years of the Oxford & Cambridge Blind Wine-Tasting Competition (Pavilion) – don't be put off by the title – shows how wine writers can entertain when they're given a bit of space to breathe. It features noted wine types letting their hair down or at least giving their toupees a good airing. I particularly enjoyed Oz Clarke on sticking it to the toffs as a grammar school boy at Oxford, and Will Lyons on claret and the Auld Alliance. The second book is an ebook only thing called Wining and Dining: Sediment Guide to Wine and the Dinner-Party (Sediment). It brings a mixture of seriousness and silliness to the strange ritual of the dinner party. In the right hands, wine and comedy can go together.

Books to Watch Out For: December

“Brown Dog” (Grove Press), by Jim Harrison, out December 3rd. Brown Dog (or B.D.), a down-and-out, Upper Peninsula Michigan Indian prone to roaming in pursuit of his appetites, first appeared as the title character of a 1990 novella, in which he tries to recover the body of an old Indian preserved at the bottom of Lake Superior. Since then, B.D. has developed over the course of four more novellas, in which he does everything from searching L.A. for the man who stole his bearskin to caring for special-needs foster children while suffering from a chronic toothache. This volume brings all the Brown Dog stories together for the first time, along with a new, sixth novella, “He Dog,” in which we find B.D. on a road trip to Montana for a chance at love. Harrison’s writing is funny, generous, and bittersweet, with an

“Dangerous Women” (Tor Books), edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, out December 3rd. Among the twenty-one original stories in this cross-genre anthology (a companion to the 2010 collection “Warriors”), some are entirely new, and others are continuations of best-selling series—a novella by George R. R. Martin, for example, about a civil war in Westeros before the events of his beloved series “A Game of Thrones.” All are linked by a focus on anti-damsels in distress: “sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls…” Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, Sharon Kay Penman, and Lev Grossman are among the volume’s contributors. —R.A.


“In the Night of Time” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossman, out December 3rd. Publishers Weekly called this expansive novel a “ ‘War and Peace’ for the Spanish Civil War.” A story of love, violence, and politics, the book is told from the perspective of a Spanish architect named Ignacio Abel who flees Madrid for New York in 1936, leaving behind a wife and children. His recollections of his rise from inauspicious beginnings to notable success wind through the true historical events of Spain in the thirties. The complex plot and dense descriptions echo Molina’s earlier works, including the much-praised “A Manuscript of Ashes.” “In the Night of Time” was received with prizes and enthusiastic reviews in Europe. It is the fifth of Molina’s books to be translated into English. —A.D.



“Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Sherill Tippins, out December 3rd. These days, the Chelsea Hotel is famous largely for the bohemian crowd that gathered there in the sixties and seventies. Tippins’s history of the building surveys all the expected anecdotes from those years—Bob Dylan writing “Blonde on Blonde,” Andy Warhol filming “Chelsea Girls,” Janis Joplin sleeping with Leonard Cohen, Sid Vicious apparently murdering Nancy Spungen—as well as providing a more thorough sense of the atmosphere where these events occurred. Tippins also goes further back in history, to the building’s founding, in 1884, as the home of an association dedicated to the communal-living ideas of the French utopian Charles Fourier. In those days, the neighborhood was on the edge of town, and the Chelsea was the largest residential building in New York. The neighbors feared that “Parisian-style apartment living might lead the residents to looser moral standards.” Maybe, in retrospect, they were right. —A.D.


“No Regrets: Three Discussions” (n+1 Foundation), edited by Dayna Tortorici, out December 9th. This pocket-size book—the fifth in n+1’s pamphlet series, and a follow-up to 2007’s “What We Should Have Known”—features engaging, often funny conversations with twelve female writers, editors, academics, activists, and artists about reading in their late teens and early twenties. What books do they wish they had read? What books made them want to write? What books do they avoid revisiting? Where did they get cues about what to read? (Elif Batuman: “I had the worst time ever trying to read Henry Miller in Samarkand. I had a serious crush on a guy who said that ‘Sexus,’ ‘Plexus,’ and ‘Nexus’ were the best books ever, so I went to a bookstore, and they were too expensive, so I just got ‘Sexus’ and ‘Plexus.’ ”) Tortorici, who moderates the discussions, describes “No Regrets” in her introduction as “a book of women talking about the processes of becoming themselves.” —R.A.



“Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe” (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Ray Jayawardhana, out December 10th. Neutrinos gained widespread attention in 2011, after a team of physicists in Europe discovered that the subatomic particles could travel faster than the speed of light, thus violating Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Those findings turned out to be erroneous—the result of faulty experimental equipment—but among physicists like Jayawardhana, neutrinos have been a subject of keen interest for decades. In “Neutrino Hunters,” Jayawardhana, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Toronto and an award-winning science writer, chronicles more than eighty years of neutrino research by some of the “most brilliant minds and colorful personalities in the history of physics,” from Wolfgang Pauli to scientists today, and explains the particles’ enormous implications for cosmic phenomena like stellar explosions, dark matter, and the early stages of the universe after the Big Bang. Neutrinos, he writes, are “by far the most elusive and the weirdest of all known denizens of the subatomic world”; but, for neutrino hunters, “the best is yet to come.” —R.A.



“Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt” (Basic Books), by Edward P. Kohn, out December 10th. Teddy Roosevelt has come down to us through history as the Rough Rider President, living strenuously and gleaning his political outlook by exploring the untamed American West. This new biography of Roosevelt argues that our understanding of him is upside down, that the Western adventurer was a persona that Roosevelt promoted to play to voters’ romanticized notion of the frontier, while his politics were, in fact, firmly rooted in his upbringing and political training in New York City. Kohn’s last book, “Hot Time in the Old Town,” explained how New York’s disastrous 1896 heat wave, which occurred while Roosevelt was the police commissioner, helped vault the young man onto the political stage. “Heir to the Empire City” expands this storyline, looking at Roosevelt’s biography and writings to demonstrate that Teddy was as much an urban sophisticate as he was a cowboy, and more of a New Yorker than a frontiersman. —A.D.


“The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987” (Harvard University Press), edited by Hans Bak, out December 16th. Boswell of the “lost generation,” literary editor of The New Republic, and champion of authors from Fitzgerald and Faulkner—whose career he resuscitated—to Kerouac and Kesey, Malcolm Cowley lived a long life and wrote a ton of letters debating, critiquing and defending the state of American literature. (Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken and Edmund Wilson were among his closest interlocutors.) The majority of the letters in this collection have never before been published; they are presented here in chronological order, with a foreword by Cowley’s son, Robert, and extensive biographical notes by Hans Bak, the book’s editor. Cowley was a “barometric chronicler of his literary times,” writes Bak in his introduction; his collected letters amount to a heady portrait of American literary and intellectual life in the twentieth century. —R.A.

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Despite being released nearly 90 years ago, this fictionalized consideration of the life of Mark Livermore is full of amazing dealing training. The difficulties, achievements, and difficulties that Livermore goes through in his strong profession are the same that investors face these days. If you study this guide and aren't interested, then dealing probably isn't for you.

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There can be no such factor as best foods preparation books record without Mr Oliver, of course. One of the things I really like most about almost all of Jamie Oliver's prepare books is their amazing and outstanding presentation. They are not endless WebPages of collections and collections of writing but are instead complete of bright, vivid and delightful images, as well as no- rubbish recipes. In his 30 Moment Meals Jaime reveals you that once and for all foods preparation does not have to be a traumatic and time consuming event. Jamie's 30 Moment Foods are awesome for employees for whom time is cash, and of course students who wish to spend minimum period of your energy and energy and effort foods preparation and maximum period of your energy and energy and effort... studying. Not only is it fantastically organized with a specific area firstly, mains and sweets, but there are numerous veggie recipes spread within, creating this information basically for every type of chief cook.

5. The Best Recipes in the World by Level Bittman

After his first appearance prepare information How to Cook Everything became an international feeling, Bittman is back to teach you it is easier than you thought to prepare recipes from all all over the globe. With no needless elaborations Bittman carefully leads you on a culinary throughout the globe trip that will keep your preferences in a state of excitement. The best aspect of Level Bittman's The Best Recipes In The World while you may never get circular to foods preparation everything within, the recipes you do create will create you feel motivated to take recipes you already prepare and turn them on their head. Although it can be frustrating to face so many recipes in one information, I desire you to add this to your selection. It is amazing and will only help to increase your information of foods.

4. Gordon Ramsay's Tricks by Gordon Ramsay

In this awesome and not too badly priced information, Gordon Ramsay allows you in on a few secrets that have created him the world-renowned chief cook that we have all come to really like. With a huge selection of recipes from chicken to fish and sweets to sauces, this recipe book allows you in on within info that will have buddies and close relatives thinking you are a bona-fide kitchen expert. The recipes are easy and effective and Ramsay has even added thrives of his own, such as useful guidelines on introducing recipes. If you really have a interest for foods preparation or would really like to learn more, this is the information that instructs you not just to prepare but how to become a chief cook. These guidelines help to create foods preparation a truly enjoyable experience and will boost your assurance to be awesome not only in foods preparation but also in consuming as well.

3. The Finish Book of Sushi by Hideo Dekura

As a self-confessed sushi enthusiast this information is awesome - the WebPages are almost delightful. It brings together the modern with the traditional and allows you to get to holders with this challenging Japanese’s style of foods preparation. Although not to everybody's taste, this information instructs you the secrets behind creating that challenging difficult grain and how to existing your sushi in amazing ways. The most interesting factor about Dekura's information is the way it advances from easy to expert. This allows you to move progressively at your own pace and also sets little objectives within the information. Whilst there are other books on the market such as Yo Sushi's, it is Dekura's information that really stands out of the audience. With stunning digital cameras it motivates with a simple film of the page, and as opposed to its competitors has obvious and easy guidelines. A must have for any sushi fan and it also makes an excellent existing.

2. Wahaca - Spanish Food At Home by Thomasina Miers

This information comes in at variety two of this best foods preparation books top ten and is a must have for any frequent Wahaca customer. It was only recently published and falls you directly into the vivid and delightful globe of Spanish street foods. One factor that did surprise me was the breakfast area, and I have to confess I have been thoroughly transformed to a mexican way of consuming in the morning. Filled with amazing images and written in an accessible and helpful way, this information does exactly what the title states and brings Spanish foods directly into your kitchen. Miers has clearly done the research required for such an beautiful information, and the information about mexican chillies is important. An excellent information for foods preparation foods for buddies and an excellent equivalent to BBQ parties.

1.Jaime does... by Jaime Oliver

In at variety one is Jaime does. In this information Jaime journeys through foodie locations such as The country, Portugal and The other agents to find innovative recipes. The information is beautifully presented (like all of Jaime's books) and has amazing images of his journeys alongside the awesome images of his foods. Each country has an starting passage that explains the culture and foods he came into contact with, and then in very easy language and an ever helpful overall tone, Jaime books you through a range of recipes. From light attacks such as patatas bravas to the more complex recipes like the meal tartare, Jaime's overall tone never condescends you as the beginner chief cook. This information not only provides excellent entertainment as a teaching tool but is also nice to flip through every now and again to look at the location photos of his foods trip. Overall a very worthy champion of this Best Cooking Books record. Absolutely delicious!

This is by no means the only ten prepare books I think you should own. There are many other awesome recipe books out there for newbie’s such as The Student Cookbook by Sophie Grigson. This is fantastic for beginner culinary experts who basically do not have enough a chance to prepare intricate foods every day and are after recipes for both real foods preparation and convenience foods preparation. Then for more awesome culinary experts who are willing to getinventive and scientific in your kitchen, there is Heston Bluementhal's awesome information The Fat Goose Cookbook, which brings together stunning cases and crazy recipes for a truly excellent foods preparation experience. Overall, the ten books that writes these best foods preparation books record all offer helpful, straightforward guidance which enables you to not only appreciate them as books, but also appreciate them as learning tools that will one day create you the king of your kitchen.

Bon appétit ladies and men.

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