Just about everything I know how to find (including many of the links repeated below) can be found on Dave Awl's comprehensive Hoban reference, The Head of Orpheus. The links page on that site includes information on how to get the books themselves. Mr. Awl also runs an invaluable Hoban E-mail discussion group, The Kraken.
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(essay by Hoban on how he began the book [DA])
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(publisher's page includes Hoban's afterword, map, and complete first 2 chapters! [DA])
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(study guide to [BJB]'s most recent course on the history of technology, which uses RW as a text; each week's reading includes an extremely detailed "Riddley Guide" with illustrations and commentary on many related subjects.)
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(essay by Prof. David Cowart [DA])
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on alchemy: | ||
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on Bran: | ||
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on Canterbury Cathedral: | ||
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on charcoal: |
Charcoal burning in Anglo-Saxon and Viking England
(with illustration)
from "Spinning the Web of Ingenuity"
(numerous photos)
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on Gnostic Gospels: | ||
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on The Green Man: | ||
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on gunpowder: |
Historical notes
(from New Zealand artillery association)
Caveman to Chemist
(do it yourself)
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on heads: | ||
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on Kent: |
Wikipedia: Kent
(general information)
Historic Kent
(brief town histories)
Kent place names
(etymology)
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on physics: | ||
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on post-apocalyptics: |
Where London Stood
(a study of fictional depictions of the ruin of civilization, 18th century to present)
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on Punch and Judy: |
Brief synopsis & etymology
(from Brewer's Phrase and Fable)
Punchandjudy.com
(massive reference site)
From "Spinning the Web of Ingenuity"
(several photos of fit-up and puppets)
Photos & description of part of a show
(given in Broadstairs, Kent, in 2002)
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on sheela-na-gigs: | ||
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on St. Eustace: |
Wikipedia: Saint Eustace (legend)
(summary of legend and its history)
Story from The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, 1275
(by Jacobus de Voragine - earliest known reference)
Story from Sacred and Legendary Art, 1911
("there is nothing in this legendary romance to recommend it")
Legends of the Saints
(interesting essay on the gray area between hagiography and myth)
small photo & description of Canterbury painting
(from Cathedral web site)
St. Eustachius by Anselm Kiefer
(done in 1974, the same year Hoban encountered the painting in Canterbury [DO])
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