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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198671-5
EAN 9780141986715
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-500-25223-9
EAN 9780500252239
Pirates have a well-earned bad reputation, and this book invites the reader to join their ranks. Here you will discover everything the aspiring pirate needs to know in order to join a crew and start and possibly end a life of adventure, plunder and glory. The hopeful initiate is educated on all manner of piratical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-3708-3
EAN 9781509837083
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his wife'. For a decade, Villiers was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-964254-0
EAN 9780199642540
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-297-85211-7
EAN 9780297852117
Francis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever had. This is his story.A contemporary of Henry VIII of England, Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king, a man who was the exemplar of courtly and civilised behaviour throughout Europe. A courageous and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-1-350-01941-6
EAN 9781350019416
During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 447 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-1-304-54413-1
EAN 9781304544131
The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia details the life of Pope Alexander VI and the issues he faced, both externally and internally. This critically acclaimed book was originally published by Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew in 1910, and has been re-published because of its historical significance and contribution to history.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812828-9
EAN 9780008128289
A stunning reappraisal of Henry VIII's fifth wife ... Gareth Russell's book is scholarly yet highly readable ... basing his account on exhaustive research into her household, he provides a portrayal that is fresh and compelling.It is a stunning achievement' Tracy Borman, Sunday Times During one of the hottest summers on record the court of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7011-8586-2
EAN 9780701185862
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I.His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever. Charles I's reign is one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-389-1
EAN 9781784783891
The Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumults of 1642 and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative John Rees brings to life the men - including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, Thomas Rainsborough - and women who ensured victory at war, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 38,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6676-1
EAN 9781471166761
'Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vinci's other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly 'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-027518-1
EAN 9780190275181
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-184-2
EAN 9781786071842
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose...Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 45,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-152-1
EAN 9781786691521
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their patronage ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-728870-0
EAN 9780007288700
How and why did Henry VIII turn from a glamorous Renaissance prince into this country's greatest tyrant? David Starkey's magesterial concluding biography, published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne, tells this remarkable, bloodthirsty story. When Henry VIII came to throne in 1509, he had already distinguished himself as a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-100-2
EAN 9781786071002
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing powers, calmly set their menfolk aside and declare that they, as women, are better equipped to organise a peace between their warring nations. An ambitious young woman, debarred by her sex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-1147-2
EAN 9781509811472
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad ...
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Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-0126-7
EAN 9781471101267
'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in print.' - William Dalrymple, The Guardian The core of the book is a virtuoso takedown of cherished shibboleths of Raj mythology' Financial Times A forceful reminder that Britain has its own messy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968201-0
EAN 9780199682010
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