Before dinner, there's a 30-minute, butler-serviced cocktail hour often held in the Hunts' library, which features floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, red walls and a cozy atmosphere.
Yesterday's vote launched a hunt in bookshops, libraries and online to find the UK's favourite Puffin book to mark the publisher's 70th anniversary.
It is, as expected, a decidedly masculine place, cluttered with books about war and hunting -- the library contains about 9,000 volumes -- and decorated with African animal trophies and bullfight posters.
Although it never ran, I still consider the hours I spent in the extraordinary Condé Nast picture library, hunting high and low for the photographic equivalent of Proust's madeleine, some of the most thrilling I've ever devoted to "research".
Beautiful color reproductions are particularly helpful in the picture book sections, while the thoughtful summaries of books for older children like Wilson Rawls's "Where the Red Fern Grows" (1961) and William P Du Boiss's Twenty-One Balloonss" (1947) -- involving "travel, science fiction and adventure" -- make you want to go hunt them down in library or bookstore.
Two sudden deaths spur Janeway's hunt for the lost library, which is exciting in an erudite way but overshadowed by the remarkable narrative (introduced midbook) of Charles Warren, a Baltimore bibliophile who was befriended by Burton during his visit to America in 1860 and accompanied the explorer on a history-altering trip to Charleston on the eve of the Civil War.
Long before Google existed, I had to hunt down broadsheets in the local library to learn about this law, all the time fearing being caught by the librarian and handed over to my parents.
9 38am: Lots of library titles such as Hunt For Red October, Matrix.
Sentieo's synonym library allows it to hunt down different ways of saying the same thing with the goal of not forcing investors — or their dutiful analysts — to read through 100-page 10-Q documents manually.
Shortly after revisiting Waters's "Bookworm" broadcast, I had occasion to visit the library, and there I hunted down Denton Welch's "Youth is Pleasure," on his recommendation.
