Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet. Witnessing History, Paperback - David Meara

Marking the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, David Meara draws on archive material - including a previously un...

DescriptionOn 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet--interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice--began to founder taking their Briti...

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eu...

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 ...

Former Archdeacon of London David Meara explores some of John Betjeman's favourite churches, cathedrals and secular buildings.Publisher: Amberley P...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

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Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Kraig BeckerIllustration(s): 50 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

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Tiggy is a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. But then the Pirate ...

A beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design for passionate collectors, obsessive audiophiles, and design fansPublisher: Phaidon Press ...

The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughou...

Reducere. DescriptionAll the action within James Joyce's Ulysses takes place on a single day (June 16th, 1904) and in the same city, Dublin. The Bloomsday Tr...

Deep in the ocean, TOPO THE OCTOPUS plays some relaxing music for AQUAMAN. While the SEA KING rescues a whale caught in the deadly current, his SUP...

Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and as...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

DescriptionAlexander the GreatAlexander the Great. A boy, groomed for greatness from the earliest age, who would put his stamp on the world for gen...

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This review is an update to the first worldwide review of bottom fisheries in the high seas, published in 2009 based on information from 2003 to 20...

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling...

Vega Jane and the End of Time (previously published in the USA as The Stars Below) is the fourth and stunning final instalment in master storytelle...

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Chadwick Chronicles: Vampire of the High Seas focuses on the story of Chadwick. Chadwick's mother is human, but his father is a vampire. Chadwick h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Lea YpiNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.