Author: Albert SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole
Author: Albert SmithThe Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad
Author: Albert SmithThe Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole
Author: Albert SmithThe Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole
Author: Albert SmithPublisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
The Cockney Who Sold the Alps
Author: Alan McNeePublisher: Victorian Secrets
ISBN: 1906469679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you've probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London's Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as "inimitable", an epithet Smith's contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens's affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired 'Mont Blanc mania', encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
English Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Book Auction Records
Author: Frand KarslakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Author: J. Ricker