Author: Antoine Claude PasquinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Italy and its comforts, manual of tourists, by Valery
Author: Antoine Claude PasquinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Italy and Its Comforts. Manual of Tourists. By Valery. With an Index Map
Author: Valery (M.)Dickens and Travel
Author: Lucinda HawksleyPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526735660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.
Key Figures Aboard RMS Titanic
Author: Anthony NicholasPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399086014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Titanic. The Marilyn Monroe of ocean liners. A sleek, sultry beauty, taken out way before her time. A kind of 21st century Flying Dutchman, with interiors by Cesar Ritz, still striving to achieve the waters of a port she can never reach. Fuelled by a subtle mixture of horror, fascination and sheer, fatal glamour, she surges heedlessly across the still, starlit calm of our collective subconscious, hell bent on achieving her chilling, near midnight rendezvous with her killer. Titanic is a brilliantly lit stage, carrying her cast of exotic, terminally endangered extras toward an abyss at once both unfathomable and inconceivable. Here’s where any similarity with any other tome about the Titanic ends. For the first time ever, a succession of key characters and groups of individuals come to the fore. Centre stage, over seventeen chapters, we meet the men whose decisions, actions and omissions combined like some slow burning powder trail to trigger a final, cataclysmic conclusion; the foundering, in mid Atlantic, of the biggest moving object ever seen on the face of the planet. One by one, a series of individuals take a bow. Seemingly omnipotent owners and hugely experienced ship’s officers. Engineers and designers. Would be rescuers and embattled wireless operators. We meet them as individuals, not supermen. Their histories, backgrounds and life experiences are assessed for the first time ever, putting their actions on the night that Titanic sank into a context, a light as stark as that of the distress rockets, arcing into the sky...
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Author: The Stuckey Lean Collection [in the Reference Library]
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Author: Bristol (England). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries and bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal
Author: The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be Continued Quarterly
Author: A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature
Author: Longmans, Green and coPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description