Adrian Tinniswood
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- Faber & Faber, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35096-4
EAN 9780571350964
A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian. Croquet. Parlour games.Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our host, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood, traces the evolution of this quintessentially British pastime from debauched ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,57 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-189-7
EAN 9781786691897
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959285-3
EAN 9780099592853
'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened ...
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- Jonathan Cape, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-224-09945-5
EAN 9780224099455
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955575-9
EAN 9780099555759
The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daughters between 1630 and ...
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Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-century Mediterranean
- Random House, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952386-4
EAN 9780099523864
From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency. Studying the origins of these ...
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