Diana Preston
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- Grove Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,60 €
ISBN 978-0-8021-6018-8
EAN 9780802160188
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ...
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- Transworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77086-6
EAN 9780552770866
Spanning fifty years, "Before the Fall-Out" tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it. And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists from many different nations transmuted into a secretive wartime race for the ultimate ...
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- Doubleday, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-293-1
EAN 9780857522931
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. "Lusitania"-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of ...
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A Higher Form of Killing
Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- Bloomsbury USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 29,55 €
ISBN 978-1-62040-212-2
EAN 9781620402122
The Zeppelin, the torpedo, and poison gas--Diana Preston offers a startling new window onto WWI with her chronicle of the birth of weapons of mass destruction.
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Relying on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the foreign defenders in the diplomatic district of Peking, and on her own extensive research from both Chinese and Western perspectives, Preston places readers squarely in the middle of events as they unfold during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
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- Corgi, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77210-5
EAN 9780552772105
William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party ...
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