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The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages

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Charles Drazin: Mapping the Past: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge of Empire [2017] paperback HISTO The Name of the Rose'Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?' 'A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!' Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the west of Ireland where she had grown up, and of her father,