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Secret London; Exploring The Hidden City, With Original Walks And Unusual Places To Visit (globetrotter Walking Guides) by Andrew Duncan
This guide strips away the bricks and tarmac to uncover London's hidden landscape. It explores the honeycomb of structures that lay under the streets, from the government's vast system of offices and tunnels under Whitehall, to abandoned underground stations, brick-lined lakes and Clerkenwell's netw
Military Memoirs: Letters Home From The Crimea: Young Cavalryman's Crimea Campaign (military Memoirs) by Edited By Philip Warner
Letters from a young cavalryman.
Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914 by Philip Priestley
Victorian Prison Lives is the first account of the process of imprisionment in England between 1830 and 1914 to be drawn largely from the writings of prisoners themselves. The period was in some ways one of great change, beginning with an astonishing penitentiary experiement when prisons were seen a
Tales Of Old Buckinghamshire (county Tales) by Jean Archer
This book covers 20 amazing stories of bygone days full of drama and pageantry. The subjects include the 'Chiltern Hundreds, the 'Hell Fire Club' and 'Olney's Pancake Race'.
Dispatches From The Heart: Love Letters From The Front Line by None
A tribute to the soldiers at the frontline of the battle during the 19th and 20th centuries. These letters tell of loneliness and hilarity, boredom and the excitement of action, the companionship of friends and the agony of loss. Many of them never returned, while others came back to continue their
Lost On Everest: The Search For Mallory And Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
Beginning with Sikdhar and Hennessy, this volume explores the events which led up to Mallory and Irvines climb, traces the subsequent history of climbing on Everest and concludes with the story of the search for Mallory and Irvines bodies and cameras.
The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion (wordsworth Reference) by Sir James George Frazer
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. "The Golden Bough", his masterpiece, appeared in twelve volumes between 1890 and 1915. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922. Remarkable for
Michael Palins Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin
Michael Palin travels in search of the legend - Ernest Hemmingway
Scarlet And Black. by Stendhal.
A Chronicle Of The Nineteenth Century--Volume 1. Everymans Library No 945.
What If Military Historians Imagine by Robert Cowley
American editor Robert Cowley has brought together those whom his meaty book dubs \\\"the world\\\'s foremost military historians\\\" to describe details of significant human conflicts and to construct plausible \\\"counterfactual\\\" events. The balance between the actual and th
A History Of English Literature. by Arthur Compton-rickett
The making of the English speech and Literature throughout the ages.
The Stones Of Venice. by John Ruskin.
Three Volume Set. Everymans Library No-213-215. With original illustrations and introduction by L.March Phillips.
Rads And Canals In The 18th Century by M Greenwood
Historical narrative
Des Hommes En Quercy. by Jean Luc Obereiner.
Men In Quercy. A pictorial history of four residnets in the town of quercy-Arsandaux-Fourcassie-Maury-Nespoulous. French Text. Illustrated on all pages with b/w plates.
Histoire De La Guyenne. by Charles Dartigue.
.Que sais-je?-series. French Text. What do i know series.
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