Author: Thomas Cook (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Traveller's Handbook for Switzerland, Including French Savoy & Italian Lakes
Author: Thomas Cook (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy Including Florence, Lucca, Tuscany, Elba, Etc., Umbria, the Marches, and Part of the Late Patrimony of St. Peter
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
“A” Handbook for Travellers in France
Author: John D. MurrayThe English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
King Con
Author: Paul WillettsPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0451495837
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most demanding and bravura performance of his life. In the fall of 1917, Laplante reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Under the pretenses of raising money for struggling Native American reservations, Laplante dressed in buckskins and a feathered headdress and traveled throughout the American West, narrowly escaping exposure and arrest each time he left town. When the heat became too much, he embarked upon a lucrative continent-hopping tour that attracted even more enormous crowds, his cons growing in proportion to the adulation of his audience. As he moved through Europe, he spied his biggest mark on the Riviera: a prodigiously rich Hungarian countess, who was instantly smitten with the con man. The countess bankrolled a lavish trip through Italy that made Laplante a darling of the Mussolini regime and a worldwide celebrity, soaring to unimaginable heights on the wings of his lies. But then, at the pinnacle of his improbable success, Laplante’s overreaching threatened to destroy him… In King Con, Paul Willetts brings this previously untold story to life in all its surprising absurdity, showing us how our tremendous capacity for belief and our longstanding obsession with celebrity can make fools of us all—and proving that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia
Author: George BradshawA Handbook for Travellers in Cornwall
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
![Bradshaw's illustrated travellers' hand book in [afterw.] to France PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/zGEDAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: George Bradshaw
Author: Richard Ford