Author: Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Technical Bulletin
Author: Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Prince of Tricksters
Author: Matt Houlbrook
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613329X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters—royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery—his changing names and telling of tales. An impudent young playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing “ex-crook,” turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. But then he’s found out again—exposed and disgraced for faking an exclusive about a murder case. So he reinvents himself, taking a new name and embarking on a prolific, if short-lived, career as a royal biographer and publisher. Chased around the world by detectives and journalists after yet another sensational scandal, the gentleman crook dies as spectacularly as he lived—a washed-up alcoholic, asphyxiated in a fire of his own making. The lives of Netley Lucas are as flamboyant as they are unlikely. In Prince of Tricksters, Matt Houlbrook picks up the threads of Lucas’s colorful lies and lives. Interweaving crime writing and court records, letters and life-writing, Houlbrook tells Lucas’s fascinating story and, in the process, provides a panoramic view of the 1920s and ’30s. In the restless times after the Great War, the gentlemanly trickster was an exemplary figure, whose tall tales and bogus biographies exposed the everyday difficulties of knowing who and what to trust. Tracing how Lucas both evoked and unsettled the world through which he moved, Houlbrook shows how he prompted a pervasive crisis of confidence that encompassed British society, culture, and politics. Taking readers on a romp through Britain, North America, and eventually into Africa, Houlbrook confronts readers with the limits of our knowledge of the past and challenges us to think anew about what history is and how it might be made differently.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613329X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters—royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery—his changing names and telling of tales. An impudent young playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing “ex-crook,” turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. But then he’s found out again—exposed and disgraced for faking an exclusive about a murder case. So he reinvents himself, taking a new name and embarking on a prolific, if short-lived, career as a royal biographer and publisher. Chased around the world by detectives and journalists after yet another sensational scandal, the gentleman crook dies as spectacularly as he lived—a washed-up alcoholic, asphyxiated in a fire of his own making. The lives of Netley Lucas are as flamboyant as they are unlikely. In Prince of Tricksters, Matt Houlbrook picks up the threads of Lucas’s colorful lies and lives. Interweaving crime writing and court records, letters and life-writing, Houlbrook tells Lucas’s fascinating story and, in the process, provides a panoramic view of the 1920s and ’30s. In the restless times after the Great War, the gentlemanly trickster was an exemplary figure, whose tall tales and bogus biographies exposed the everyday difficulties of knowing who and what to trust. Tracing how Lucas both evoked and unsettled the world through which he moved, Houlbrook shows how he prompted a pervasive crisis of confidence that encompassed British society, culture, and politics. Taking readers on a romp through Britain, North America, and eventually into Africa, Houlbrook confronts readers with the limits of our knowledge of the past and challenges us to think anew about what history is and how it might be made differently.
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 36 - 1944 and 1945
Author:
Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1239
Book Description
Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1239
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Showcasing the Great Experiment
Author: Michael David-Fox
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019979457X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, it reinterprets one of the great cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters of the twentieth century.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019979457X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, it reinterprets one of the great cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters of the twentieth century.
Railway Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Reclamation Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Feeding and Management Investigations at the United States Dairy Experiment Station at Beltsville, MD., 1930 Report
Author: Thompson Elwyn Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Iran
Author: Great Britain. Commercial Relations and Exports Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Report on Trade and Transport Conditions in Persia
Author: Great Britain. Department of Overseas Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description