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Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Remember, Remember
Gunpowder, treason and a plot like no other...**AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024****LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'This story ignites a...
Remember, Remember
Gunpowder, treason and a plot like no other...**AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024****LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'This story ignites a...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
A Kiss in the Moonlight: A Gambler's Daughters Novel
Author: Cathy MaxwellFormat: Paperback, 106mm x 168mm, 454g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell begins a spectacular new series, the Gambler's...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
A Nest of Vipers
Author: Catherine JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 174g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Random House Children's UK, United Kingdom, 2021A gripping tale of a group of larger-than-life con artists who roam the...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel HewittFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 414g, 560 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Author: Adam NicolsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times'Spellbinding and intelligent'...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
The Water Child
Author: Mathew WestFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 320g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023What the sea takes for its own can never return... Portugal, 1754. Cecilia Lamb knew being...
Caspar Wolf: and the Aesthetic Conquest of Nature
Author: Kunstmuseum BaselFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 250mm, 1170g, 232 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2014The notion of the Alps as a magnificent natural spec tacle is surprisingly recent. It was not...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...