Author: Andrew Mead
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A pictorial history of the famous Grey-Green bus and coach company.
Grey-Green
Author: Andrew Mead
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A pictorial history of the famous Grey-Green bus and coach company.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A pictorial history of the famous Grey-Green bus and coach company.
Grey-Green and Contemporaries
Author: Tom McLachlan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527235809
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527235809
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Great Contemporaries
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 079534967X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the major figures of his time. These short biographies cover political and cultural personalities ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. This edition includes five previously uncollected essays and a number of photographs, plus an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar James W. Muller. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these essays focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into these subjects as Churchill approaches them with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits.
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 079534967X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the major figures of his time. These short biographies cover political and cultural personalities ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. This edition includes five previously uncollected essays and a number of photographs, plus an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar James W. Muller. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these essays focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into these subjects as Churchill approaches them with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits.
Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries
Author: Carl Rollyson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491750197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the new poetry as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lowell emerges to contradict the malicious and inaccurate reports of her public and private life. Especially notable is Rollysons discussion of Lowells friendships with women who wrote memoirs about the poet that contradict the sort of prejudice leveled against her by Pound and his circle of writers and critics. Rollysons brief but revealing discussions of Lowells poetry, and his inclusion of the full texts of key poems, makes this volume an authoritative introduction for new readers of one of the 20th centurys important writers. And Rollysons meticulous analysis of several literary biographies also makes a contribution to the study of contemporary life writing.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491750197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the new poetry as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lowell emerges to contradict the malicious and inaccurate reports of her public and private life. Especially notable is Rollysons discussion of Lowells friendships with women who wrote memoirs about the poet that contradict the sort of prejudice leveled against her by Pound and his circle of writers and critics. Rollysons brief but revealing discussions of Lowells poetry, and his inclusion of the full texts of key poems, makes this volume an authoritative introduction for new readers of one of the 20th centurys important writers. And Rollysons meticulous analysis of several literary biographies also makes a contribution to the study of contemporary life writing.
W.B. Yeats and His Contemporaries
Author: Ian Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Contemporary Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Motor Coaches and Charabancs
Author: James Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784424137
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The coach – distinguished from the bus by its use for longer-haul and more comfortable trips – has a long and august history. Its origins lie in the charabanc, a long open-topped vehicle used to transport passengers on works outings and pleasure excursions. Over time, coaches came to be enclosed and fitted with more comfortable seating and higher-quality bodywork than the charabancs and the buses used on shorter routes. By the 1960s and 1970s on-board toilets began to be fitted, and despite a decline due to private car ownership, coach travel remains popular, with Wi-Fi, electric sockets and even video screens now built in. This colourful introduction explains the development of motor coach design and the main coach manufacturers, models and operators, offering a fascinating insight into the history of the nation's most popular vehicles.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784424137
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The coach – distinguished from the bus by its use for longer-haul and more comfortable trips – has a long and august history. Its origins lie in the charabanc, a long open-topped vehicle used to transport passengers on works outings and pleasure excursions. Over time, coaches came to be enclosed and fitted with more comfortable seating and higher-quality bodywork than the charabancs and the buses used on shorter routes. By the 1960s and 1970s on-board toilets began to be fitted, and despite a decline due to private car ownership, coach travel remains popular, with Wi-Fi, electric sockets and even video screens now built in. This colourful introduction explains the development of motor coach design and the main coach manufacturers, models and operators, offering a fascinating insight into the history of the nation's most popular vehicles.
The Stamp news, a monthly journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries
Author: Laurel Amtower
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551117967
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551117967
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations.
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland
Author: John Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description