A Travellers History Of England
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Author | : Christopher Daniell |
Publisher | : Interlink Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This compact volume . . . delivers a solid, comprehensive and entertaining overview of Englands history . . . a delightful source.--Library Journal. A Travellers History of England deals with all the major periods of English history and gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of Englands past from prehistoric times to the present.
Author | : Richard Tames |
Publisher | : Chastleton Travel |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Oxford (England) |
ISBN | : 9781905214433 |
A Traveller’s History of Oxford is a wonderful companion and useful guide and reference to this splendid city. It not only offers a complete and concise history of the town and university from its earliest settlements right up to the modern city of today, but gives a thorough introduction to all of its major sites and institutions.Oxford’s gifts to the world have been immense – from the English Bible, the Douai Bible, Anglicanism, the Royal Society, Christopher Wren, yellow ragwort, Methodism, the Pre-Raphaelites, Alice in Wonderland, Aestheticism, The Oxford English Dictionary, The Lord of the Rings, OXFAM, Inspector Morse…the list is endless. Oxford alumni include 5 kings, 25 of Britain’s Prime Ministers, 1 United States President, 36 Nobel Prize winner and 85 archbishops. Richard Tames skilfully weaves into his narrative thread glorious anecdotes and portraits of the eccentrics who have thrived in the town.For visitors there are tips on how to explore five of the great Oxford colleges, suggestions for Literary and Architectural walks, days trips by bicycle, bus,train or car, a guide to the museums and galleries, libraries, gardens and a full biographical summary of great Oxford names.
Author | : Christopher Daniell |
Publisher | : Interlink Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Ian Mortimer |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 1847921140 |
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
Author | : Richard Tames |
Publisher | : Armchair Traveller's History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781907973772 |
An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge is a narrative of the city and university; its food and fashion; music and gardens; books and clubs; as well as Cambridge's contributions to poetry, theater and sport; its royal associations and the new links it forged with the Arab world and China. Attractions include the world-renowned Fitzwilliam Museum and Botanic Gardens, the quirky Kettle's Yard, and museums devoted to archaeology, anthropology, zoology, earth sciences, polar research and the history of science. Research reveals thatmost visitors to Cambridge never venture more than four hundred yards from the central Market Square. An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge will help you do better than that-and want to.
Author | : Ian Mortimer |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784705969 |
'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. This is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his time-travelling prowess. 'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality' Daily Mail
Author | : Christopher Daniell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : Juan Lalaguna |
Publisher | : Interlink Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781566563246 |
This book will unlock the secrets of Spain's vibrant and colorful past, its people and culture for the interested traveler. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest settlements on the Iberian Peninsula, through the influences of the Romans, the Goths, and the Muslims, the traumas of expansion and the end of the Empire, right up to the present. Maps and line drawings.
Author | : Valerio Lintner |
Publisher | : Interlink Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Linter presents a compact portrait of Italy from prehistory to the present. Illustrations. Maps.
Author | : John Stoye |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300041804 |
This delightful book by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century traveler on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands