Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: London : Everett
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Life of Colonel Fred Burnaby
Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: London : Everett
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: London : Everett
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Levels of Life
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 034581357X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Part history, part fiction, part memoir, Levels of Life is a powerfully personal and unforgettable book, and an immediate classic on the subject of grief. Levels of Life opens in the nineteenth century with balloonists, photographers and Sarah Bernhardt, whose adventures lead seamlessly into an entirely personal account of the author's own great loss. "You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed." Levels of Life is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 034581357X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Part history, part fiction, part memoir, Levels of Life is a powerfully personal and unforgettable book, and an immediate classic on the subject of grief. Levels of Life opens in the nineteenth century with balloonists, photographers and Sarah Bernhardt, whose adventures lead seamlessly into an entirely personal account of the author's own great loss. "You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed." Levels of Life is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.
The True Blue
Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The life and times of colonel Fred Burnaby, by J.R. Ware and R.K. Mann
Author: James Redding Ware
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Nelson's Purse
Author: Martyn Downer
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 9780552150859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The extraordinary story of a previously unknown cache of Horatio Nelson’s private possessions. In 2002, Sotheby’s auction house announced the discovery of a major cache of material relating to the life of England’s greatest naval hero, Horatio Nelson. The finding sheds amazing light on the intimate life of Nelson, his wife and his mistress in a way hitherto denied to biographers. The contents of this once-in-a-lifetime discovery are remarkable — some objects were believed lost, others had previously never been known to exist. Among the latter are some remarkable letters from Nelson’s jilted wife, Fanny, detailing the breakdown of their marriage. For the first time, Fanny’s role in Nelson’s life acquires real biographical substance. Also in the find are medals, swords, porcelain and jewelry, papers and letters (including some emotive letters by Emma Hamilton and Nelson himself) which shed fascinating new light on Nelson’s domestic affairs. Most dramatically, the cache also includes the bloodstained purse Nelson was carrying on the day he was shot on board HMS Victory in 1805, still containing its gold coins. Martyn Downer, the man who made this extraordinary find and spent a year of his life validating the material, tells the extraordinary historical detective story behind this great find and its progress from discovery to auction. It’s a gripping work of non-fiction combining historical biography with the uncovering of an extraordinary treasure trove just in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar.
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 9780552150859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The extraordinary story of a previously unknown cache of Horatio Nelson’s private possessions. In 2002, Sotheby’s auction house announced the discovery of a major cache of material relating to the life of England’s greatest naval hero, Horatio Nelson. The finding sheds amazing light on the intimate life of Nelson, his wife and his mistress in a way hitherto denied to biographers. The contents of this once-in-a-lifetime discovery are remarkable — some objects were believed lost, others had previously never been known to exist. Among the latter are some remarkable letters from Nelson’s jilted wife, Fanny, detailing the breakdown of their marriage. For the first time, Fanny’s role in Nelson’s life acquires real biographical substance. Also in the find are medals, swords, porcelain and jewelry, papers and letters (including some emotive letters by Emma Hamilton and Nelson himself) which shed fascinating new light on Nelson’s domestic affairs. Most dramatically, the cache also includes the bloodstained purse Nelson was carrying on the day he was shot on board HMS Victory in 1805, still containing its gold coins. Martyn Downer, the man who made this extraordinary find and spent a year of his life validating the material, tells the extraordinary historical detective story behind this great find and its progress from discovery to auction. It’s a gripping work of non-fiction combining historical biography with the uncovering of an extraordinary treasure trove just in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar.
In "Vanity Fair"
Author: Roy T. Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Gathers caricatures and portraits depicting royalty, politicians, artists, lawyers, journalists, and sportsmen of Victorian England and includes notes on each subject's life
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Gathers caricatures and portraits depicting royalty, politicians, artists, lawyers, journalists, and sportsmen of Victorian England and includes notes on each subject's life
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
There was an Old Man--
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Limericks, Juvenile
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Limericks, Juvenile
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Lord Minto
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: London : Thomas Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: London : Thomas Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Who's who
Author: Henry Robert Addison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."