Author: Maurice Collis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' Evening Standard
Siamese White
Author: Maurice Collis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' Evening Standard
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' Evening Standard
The Legend of Siamese Cats
Author: Martin R. Clutterbuck
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Category : Cat breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
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Category : Cat breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
... Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty-six Classes Into which the Exhibition was Divided
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Official Descriptive Catalogue
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Pages : 452
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The Way of Cats
Author: Pamela Merritt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998035703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Way of Cats is a way of playing games with our cat. These communication, training, and affection games are fun and easy to learn. Then we have well-behaved and happy cats.
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ISBN: 9780998035703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Way of Cats is a way of playing games with our cat. These communication, training, and affection games are fun and easy to learn. Then we have well-behaved and happy cats.
Official Descriptive Catalogue
Author: R. Comitato Centrale Italiano per l'Esposizione Internazionale de Londra, 1862
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Category : International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the thirty-six classes into which the Exhibition was divided. [Printed for the “Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,” and edited by J. F. Iselin and P. Le Neve Foster.]
Author: International Exhibition of 1862 (LONDON)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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Official Catalogue
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Official Descriptive Catalogue - Kingdom of Italy
Author: Weltausstellung (1862, London)
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Pages : 452
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The English Gentleman Merchant at Work
Author: Søren Mentz
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772899091
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772899091
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity.