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Along the Enchanted Way
A Story of Love and Life in Romania
- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-9800-5
EAN 9780719598005
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the ...
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Arthur James Balfour possessed intellect and charm in legendary abundance. On becoming Prime Minister in 1902, it seemed that he had come into his inheritance as a true grandee. He held office longer than any other Cabinet minister and, in a fifty-year career, dealt with successes and defeats with similar equanimity.When he chose, he retreated ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6257-0
EAN 9780719562570
Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were never coming home. The Great Silence is the story ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6991-3
EAN 9780719569913
Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met.Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch as a special adviser ...
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The Art of Conversation
or What to Say, and When
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-166-5
EAN 9781848541665
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to nomads, The Art of Conversation is ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6102-3
EAN 9780719561023
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6897-8
EAN 9780719568978
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 414 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6447-5
EAN 9780719564475
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6005-7
EAN 9780719560057
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, ...
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- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6303-4
EAN 9780719563034
The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this world-changing vessel. Drawing on thirty years of maritime research, he demonstrates the truth of ...
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- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6243-3
EAN 9780719562433
One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with ...
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Messenger of Truth
Maisie Dobbs Mystery 4
- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6739-1
EAN 9780719567391
London, 1931. Nick Bassington-Hope, veteran of the Great War and controversial artist, is suddenly found dead. His death from a fall, the night before a much-anticipated exhibition of his work, is recorded as 'accidental'.But his sister is not convinced. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Georgina Bassington-Hope believes her brother was murdered, and she turns ...
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Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. This work charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople and its ruling family.
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- John Murray, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6448-2
EAN 9780719564482
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning.In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants ...
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- John Murray, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6726-1
EAN 9780719567261
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best feet forward.For he ...
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Crete
The Battle And The Resistance
The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German ...
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- John Murray, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6691-2
EAN 9780719566912
This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky ...
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- John Murray, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6692-9
EAN 9780719566929
Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers.Roumeli is not on modern maps: it ...
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Between The Woods And The Water
on Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland - The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
- John Murray, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6696-7
EAN 9780719566967
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel ...
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- John Murray, 2004
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-5529-9
EAN 9780719555299
On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of the island ...
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