The Hunt for History: On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures--From the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordi, Hardcove

Reducere. Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts--questing after preciou...

The Raphael Trail. The Secret History of One of the World's Most Precious Works of Art - Joanna Pitman

'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily Telegraph

Reducere. In 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world's oldest Bible scroll in a desert cave east of t...

Reducere. DescriptionDespite its Harry Potter-like title, The Book of the Cave of Treasures is actually a rich seam of Jewish and Christian apocryphal lore, ...

The first of its kind, a unique volume of twenty-one unpublished gems from one of the twentieth century's most popular and prolific writers Explori...

A Guide to the Wonders and Puzzles, Monsters and Codes from all over the worldIllustrations: 8pp col

New in B-format paperback - A fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.Publish...

A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Maria GoliaIllustration(s): 75 illustrations, 27 in colourNu...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Reducere. Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American cont...

Reducere. Startling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the ...

Failure is an Option is the story of an average runner who sets out to discover just how far he can go. Matt Whyman leaves behind the Saturday morn...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Randall SullivanFrom longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island ex...

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 ...

Reducere. Macavity Award"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." --Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning au...

Contributor(s): Author: David TysonThe Niagara Escarpment is the most significant land form in southern Ontario, designated a UNESCO World Biospher...

Reducere. The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intell...

Explore the Captivating History of the Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses were a complex set of battles, skirmishes, and kidnappings during th...

With plans. This book, "Letters from Head-Quarters: Or, the Realities of the War in the Crimea. By an Officer On the Staff", by Somerset John Gough...

Reducere. The author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Johanna DruckerIllustration(s): 100 halftonesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

A thrilling account of the true extent of Irish-Allied co-operation during World War II, revealed through a series of recently discovered tapes tha...

Reducere. Explore How Churchill Went From Schoolboy Failure to Wartime HeroAs a British politician who was well known for serving twice as prime minister for...

Reducere. Meet Roderick--a scrawny, unremarkable teenager keeping a diary of his life in the Middle Ages. When he's chosen to become a knight on a quest to f...

Reducere. Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities...

A story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief a...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. DescriptionA facsimile edition of the tattered notebooks of the Unknown Adventurer, this love letter to the wild details everything you need to kno...

By telling the story of the arguments and divisions within the Conservative Party, The Worm in the Apple explains why Britain voted to leave in 201...

Reducere. On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Haggadah & History is much more than a history of the Passover story. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history as reflected...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

Reducere. Meet Ellie--an enthusiastic, bumbling teenager who is fascinated with Mars. When a misunderstanding lands her in the astronaut training program for...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Verdun, then keep reading...Today, the landscape is marked by shell craters, pillb...

The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Viking is an hilarious fictional diary putting us in the shoes of a young Viking in 1000 AD as he e...

The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Engineers is an hilarious fictional diary putting us in the shoes of two young Algerian apprentice ...

The only eye witness account of the Eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Surviving the test of time, this...

Reducere. A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs Reads l...

Publisher: Web of Life Children's BooksAuthor(s): Alexandra SiyNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 219 x 261 x 10Cover type: Hardb...

Publisher: The Larks PressAuthor(s): Roger PughIllustration(s): 9 black & white and 31 colour photographsNumber of pages: 110Publication date: 2014...

Reducere. On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and m...

Reducere. On the Record shares the journey of a pioneering mental health professional who became the first African American woman to head a major mental hosp...

Reducere. Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usual...