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  • Islands

    Searching for truth on the shoreline

    de Mark Easton ...
    "A spellbinding serial voyage in which encounters with islands across time are gathered, displayed and reburnished. Memoir becomes morality, as the oldest human myths challenge present neglect and political malfunction." – Iain Sinclair"Illuminating, incisive and beautifully written." – Kirsty Young"From ancient Crete to modern Canvey, this is a fascinating voyage around island identity, exploring ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Britain Etc.

    de Mark Easton ...
    Mark Easton's Britain Etc.looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects - one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain.With each ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Britain Etc.

    de Mark Easton ...
    Narrado por Mark Easton ...

    Completo

    9 hora 59 minutos

    Mark Easton's Britain Etc.looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects - one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain.With each ... Leer más

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    The Old Ways

    A Journey on Foot

    Narrado por Robin Sachs ...

    Completo

    11 hora 23 minutos

    From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking.In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    de Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Leer más

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  • Four Lost Cities

    A Secret History of the Urban Age

    **Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science FridayA quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them.**In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, ... Leer más

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  • A History of Modern Britain

    de Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Leer más

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  • Krakatoa

    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Leer más

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  • Great Britain's Great War

    de Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.***We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the ... Leer más

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  • Brief History of Indonesia

    Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation

    de Tim Hannigan ...
    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Royalty Inc.

    Britain's Best-Known Brand

    de Stephen Bates ...
    The former Guardian royal correspondent "wisely explores a host of issues surrounding the royals, from the monarchy's role to the legacy of Diana" ( Get Surrey).It was an amazing feat in the twenty-frst century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small woman in her late-eighties, was one of the most recognisable people on the planet. The world had utterly, irreversibly, and radically evolved since she ... Leer más

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