Author: Thomas RafflesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817
Author: Thomas RafflesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, in the Summer of 1817
Author: Thomas RafflesLetters during a Tour through some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands ... Fourth edition
Author: Thomas RafflesLetters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817, by Thomas Raffles,... 4th Edition
Author: Thomas RafflesSir Stamford Raffles And Some Of His Friends And Contemporaries: A Memoir Of The Founder Of Singapore
Author: Bastin JohnPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813277688
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This publication is a biographical account of the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, through a study of the lives of his closest friends and contemporaries. Some of the personalities featured include William Brown Ramsay, John Leyden and Thomas Horsfield.
Letters, During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands
Author: Thomas RafflesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of ... T. Spencer of Liverpool; with a poem, occasioned by his death, and an appendix, containing a selection from his papers ... Second edition, etc
Author: Thomas RafflesThe Poet and the Vampyre
Author: Andrew McConnell StottPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605987042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck.That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction; Byron completed Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel.It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign
Author: Cavalie MercerPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781599904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Mercers journal is the most outstanding eyewitness account of the Waterloo campaign ever published. It is a classic of military history. This new, fully illustrated edition, featuring an extensive introduction and notes by Andrew Uffindell, one of the leading authorities on the Napoleonic Wars, contains a mass of additional material not included in the original. As the bicentenary of Waterloo approaches, this beautifully prepared, scholarly edition of Mercers work will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what it was really like to fight in the final, great battle against Napoleon.
Napoleon's Chicken Marengo
Author: Andrew UffindellPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844683885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This remarkable work tells the story of Chicken Marengo, and cuts through the tangle of myths that has sprung up around it. Supposedly created on the evening of Napoleons victory at Marengo, the dish rapidly conquered Paris, and became a renowned symbol of French haute cuisine.The author sets the dish in its context explaining the nail-biting drama of Napoleons Marengo campaign and the remarkable frenzy of rejoicing unleashed in Paris by the news of his victory. The author argues that the dish is part of a wider myth that Napoleon spun around the battle itself. Uncomfortably aware of just how close he had come to disaster, he rewrote the official account of Marengo. Determined to exploit the political impact of the victory to the full, he portrayed it as a masterly maneuver, rather than a near-defeat salvaged largely by luck.Napoleons Chicken Marengo demonstrates the persistency of popular myth in shaping perceptions of pivotal events. Uffindel sheds startling light on Napoleons extraordinary and yet elusive character, and reveals just how effectively he spun a myth around the amount of food he ate in order to project a positive image of himself. A whole cast of other, unforgettable characters enlivens the story of Chicken Marengo, from Napoleons bickering generals, to celebrity chefs, colorful adventurers, acclaimed artists, fabulously wealthy eccentrics, and famous writers such as William Makepeace Thackeray.