Editorial John Murray
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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
PVP: 9,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-2343-4
EAN 9780719523434
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 · 560 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-047-7
EAN 9781848540477
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs.Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity.Frey's trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their ...
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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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Swindled
From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6776-6
EAN 9780719567766
Salmonella ...toxins ...additives ...food scares ...Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history. From ...
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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, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6904-3
EAN 9780719569043
Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of village teashops, it reveals Betjeman not just as a sentimentalist but as a passionate ...
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- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,74 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6252-5
EAN 9780719562525
Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina was arrested late one evening. She was taken to the notorious prison, Evin, ...
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After the Reich
From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift
- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6766-7
EAN 9780719567667
In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting shots of savagery.Politically the country was neutered, carved into zones of occupation. While Britain and ...
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- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6930-2
EAN 9780719569302
London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet.Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author ...
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Seize the Hour
When Nixon met Mao
In February 1972, Nixon amazed the world with a trip to China. He was the first US President to go there. It was like a visit to the far side of the moon, but also a brilliant stroke of policy. This work presents the remarkable story of Nixon, Mao and the week that changed the ...
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- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7195-6681-3
EAN 9780719566813
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as 'a treasure of contemporary ...
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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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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination ...
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- John Murray, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7195-6450-5
EAN 9780719564505
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was ...
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