Author: John Frederick Rowbotham
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Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Henry Robert Addison
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1898

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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1530

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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Author: John Frederick Rowbotham
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: John Frederick Rowbotham
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Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Author: William Farrer
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Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Author: Pamela Sambrook
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718848381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so, she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini's very real achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to what extent his whole life was known to those around him. Vantini's extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very different worlds - the old imperial past and the new age of entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view he was a component part in the very early years of an industry which revolutionised England and Europe more than did even his hero, Napoleon.