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a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world

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Corelli's Mandolin Ralph Waldo Emerson he played a central roleExtravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the