Author: Albert Smith
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The London Medical Student
Author: Albert Smith
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The London Medical Student, and Curiosities of Medical Experience
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The Cockney Who Sold the Alps
Author: McNee, Alan
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
ISBN: 1906469520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you’ve probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London’s Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as “inimitable”, an epithet Smith’s contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens’s affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired ‘Mont Blanc mania’, encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
ISBN: 1906469520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you’ve probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London’s Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as “inimitable”, an epithet Smith’s contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens’s affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired ‘Mont Blanc mania’, encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
The London Medical Student, and Curiosities of Medical Experience
Author: Punch
Publisher: Inman Press
ISBN: 9781446079072
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Inman Press
ISBN: 9781446079072
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Our Honeymoon
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Our honeymoon, and other comicalities, from "Punch"
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Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Catalogue of books added to the library of Congress
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
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The London Medical Student and Curiosities of Medical Experience
Author: Albert Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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