by Lucy Ellmann
99
1939
Tornado (Tay Bridge collapse)
75
1879
Helicopter (Shetland Isles)
45
1986
Road (coach crash, N.Yorks.)
33
1975
Lightning (annual total)
31
1914
Yacht racing (Fastnet)
19
1979
Avalanche (Lewes)
8
1836
Mountaineering (Cairn Gorm)
6
1971
Earthquake (London)
2
1580
References
Quoted in the Text
Dedication
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851)
Epigraph
Dizzy Gillespie song, from the Mississippi Jazz Festival
Preface
Documents of the Holocaust, ed. Yitzhak Arad, Yisrael Gutman and Abraham Margaliot (1981/ 1990)
Night, Elie Wiesel (1958)
Part One England
Ants Bees and Wasps, Sir John Lubbock (1929)
George
Life, Count Lyof N. Tolstoy (trans. Isabel F. Hapgood, 1889)
Eloise
Bumblebees, Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones and Sarah A. Corbet (1991)
Eloïse
(Ditto)
George
Extinction, Thomas Bernhard (trans. David McLintock, 1995)
Eloïse
The Bee Craftsman, H. J. Wadey (1943)
Eloïse
Seashells, S. Peter Dance (1989)
Eloïse
Bumblebees (see above)
Eloïse
Ants Bees and Wasps (see above)
George
Don Giovanni, Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte (trans. William Murray, 1961)
George
Daily Telegraph
Eloïse
One, Two, Three with Ant and Bee, Angela Banner (1958)
Bumblebees (see above)
Eloïse
The Life of the Bee, Maurice Maeterlinck (trans. Alfred Sutro, 1901)
George
Guardian
Eloïse
The Easy Way to Tree Recognition, John Kilbracken (1983)
Eloïse
King Lear, William Shakespeare (1605)
Eloïse
The Easy Way to Tree Recognition (see above)
Owen
Moby Dick (see above)
Owen
The Holocaust (from The History of the Jews), Paul Johnson (1996) (Penguin 60s edition)
Eloïse
The Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White (1788/9)
Eloïse
Moby Dick (see above) — quoting from Darwin, Voyage of a Naturalist
Eloïse
‘At Castle Boterel’, Thomas Hardy (1913)
Ed
The Natural History of Selborne (see above)
Ed
Bumblebees (see above)
Ed
Mushrooms, Dr Mirko Svrćek (1975)
Part Two Connemara
The Bee Craftsman (see above)
Part Two Connemara
The Famine Decade, ed. John Killen (1995)
Eloïse
Stolen Continents: The Indian Story, Ronald Wright (1992)
Eloïse
The Famine Decade (see above)
Eloïse
Connemara, Tim Robinson (1990)
Eloïse’s Grandmother
The Humble-bee, F. W. L. Sladen (1912)
Eloïse’s Grandmother
The ‘Mary Celeste’ and Other Tales of the Sea, J. G. Lockhart (1958)
Owen
Moby Dick (see above)
Owen
Independent on Sunday (series on learning to swim)
The Evil Doctor
The Famine Decade (see above)
George
A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne (1768)
Eloïse
The Bee Craftsman (see above)
Eloïse
(Ditto)
Eloïse
The Natural History of Selborne (see above)
George
‘In the Seven Woods’, W. B. Yeats (1902)
George
Seven Woods Trail and the Family Trail, Coole Park guidebook, by Tim O’Connell (1994)
George
‘To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee’, W.B. Yeats (1921)
George
‘Among School Children’, W. B. Yeats (1928)
Eloïse
Connemara (see above)
The Doctor’s Wife
The Bee Craftsman (see above)
George
The Humble-bee (see above)
Eloïse
Ants Bees and Wasps (see above)
Eloïse
The Bee Craftsman (see above)
George
The New Guinness Book of World Records 1996, ed. Peter Matthews (1996)
Eloïse
The Natural History of Selborne (see above)
Eloïse
Name This Bird, Eric Fitch Daglish (1934)
Eloïse
(Ditto)
Eloïse
Seashells (see above)
George
The Hockey Handbook, Lloyd Percival (1992)
George
Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz (1940)
Eloïse
King Lear (see above)
Eloïse
Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans (1958)
Eloïse
The Ocean Almanac, Robert Hendrickson (1992) — account of a tsunami
Eloïse
The Ocean Almanac (see above)
Eloïse
Connemara (see above)
The Earth
Documents of the Holocaust (see above)
Eloïse
The Bee Craftsman (see above)
The Earth
The Ocean Almanac (see above)
‘AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE.’
Moby Dick (see above)
Appendix A
The Times
Appendix B
The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan
Appendix C
The New Guinness Book of World Records 1996 (see above)
Additional Sources (not directly quoted)
The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
How to Grow Giant Vegetables, Colin Bowcock (1979)
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