Big House. The Story of a Country House and its Family, Paperback - Christopher Simon Sykes

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.

The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923Publisher: Yale Univer...

Publisher: Fircone Books LtdAuthor(s): Ralph BeardmoreIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2020Dimen...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentPublisher: Yale University PressAut...

When the author and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with her uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming...

DescriptionDinner at an ancient Cornish inn leads to one baffling disappearance after another in the latest intriguing Ishmael Jones mystery. "It's...

Reducere. Ishmael Jones is someone who can t afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He s employed ...

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Dinner at an ancient Cornish inn leads to one baffling disappearance after another in the latest intriguing Ishmael Jones mystery. "It's just a nic...

Reducere. - Drawn from the Gospels- Beautiful visuals drive the story forward- Bible-based text maintains accuracy- Book appeals to all ages- Excellent teach...

Reducere. "Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago."...

A groundbreaking and original book which explores an important yet neglected facet of Scottish history.

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Reducere. DescriptionIshmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery. Death shall come on swi...

A unique and honest insight into life after a stroke written by a stroke victim who was already a stroke specialist, and a psychologist who helps o...

Reducere. West Indian poet Ian McDonald journeys down the generations of his family, describing with a loving and fascinated eye his ancestors, including war...

Reducere. On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A d...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Ch vez has created a historica...

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in 1954.

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Charnelle Pinkney BarlowIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landsca...

This collection of nearly 2, 400 recipes from more than 690 of the best country inns and bed and breakfasts in the United States and Canada include...

Reducere. Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in...

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The first full history of Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield which also reveals new information about key features of the churchIllustrations: 80 Illus...

Reducere. "Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the a...

Reducere. DescriptionAssociation of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Record Labels-Certificate of Merit (2012) The Starday St...

By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...