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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-649917-6
EAN 9780006499176
H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, accepting a mission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of ...
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A Place Called Freedom begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautiful, willful young aristocratic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-024979-8
EAN 9780140249798
A witty and sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-655033-4
EAN 9780006550334
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 4,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-283-8
EAN 9781853262838
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043507-8
EAN 9780140435078
'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention such a spot enchantment lurks in it.' - Henry James In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018837-0
EAN 9780140188370
Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10600-7
EAN 9780349106007
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-1122-5
EAN 9780804111225
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'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns.Lodging with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10531-4
EAN 9780349105314
In 1804 Colonel Burr - then Vice-President - killed General Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years after the affair, Colonel Burr was arrested by President Thomas Jefferson and charged with treason for having attempted to break up the US. This is a ficitonalized account of the story.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10530-7
EAN 9780349105307
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-017623-0
EAN 9780140176230
Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of the mid-1800s, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. As Sir John Franklin embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage, he defies the warnings of the native people, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-451-16689-0
EAN 9780451166890
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Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal: from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas. By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing exploration of one of the world's least known areas.
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Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.Theroux is a mesmerizing narrator - brilliant, witty, keenly perceptive as he floats through Gauguin landscapes, sails in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952789-3
EAN 9780099527893
A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson MandelaApril, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday.A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel . . .'Robert Harris has created the whole structure of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1024 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-963520-8
EAN 9780099635208
An historical family saga like the author's "Sarum", but this time set in Russia. The destinies of four families cross and criss-cross through the narrative, but the focus is on one Russian village and its part in history - the part played by ordinary people rather than kings and tsars.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1376 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952730-5
EAN 9780099527305
A novel tracing the story of the city of Salisbury and of five families through a hundred centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity. It charts the entire course of English history and the social and political forces that shaped its society.
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