Editorial John Murray
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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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- 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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6106-1
EAN 9780719561061
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense ...
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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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- John Murray, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-5527-5
EAN 9780719555275
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries ...
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- John Murray, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6592-2
EAN 9780719565922
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- John Murray, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3998-2244-2
EAN 9781399822442
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