Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (Stewart Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (Stewart Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

View From The Summit (Hillary Sir Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one

Facing Up - A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest (Grylls Bear)(Paperback / softback)

A remarkable journey to the summit of Mount Everest, described as 'honest and compelling' by Sir Ranulph

The Scottish Castles Story (Alexander Marc)(Pevná vazba)

The turbulent and dramatic history of Scotland's castles, including Edinburgh, Balmoral, and Cawdor Castle, and castles still venerated by members of clans such as Castle CampbellScotland's castles reflect the turbulent history of Scotland and its many conflicts and skirmishes, whether against

Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History - Stewart Binns

Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the Soviet Union by almost four million men of

Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence

Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany (Roseman Mark)(Pevná vazba)

From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life

The Story of British Animation (Stewart Jez)(Pevná vazba)

Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI archive, The Story of British Animation is the first authoritative account of the history, art and industry of animation in Britain, covering everything from the origins of animation at the end of the Victorian era to the 21st century's

Unusual Suspect - The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood (Machell Ben)(Pevná vazba)

The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood, from Times feature writer Ben

ANTIQUE MAPS OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY (Quixley Robert Charles Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

Jumbo: The Most Famous Elephant Who Ever Lived (Stewart Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Duchess Countess (Ostler Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

The remarkable story of the 18th century aristocrat who scandalised the

Churchill's Legionnaire Edmund Murray (Murray Bill)(Pevná vazba)

A biography of Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill's close friend and bodyguard in the final years of his life In 1937, aged just nineteen, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France, and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the

Flightmaster Only: The Omega Pilot's Watch (Rossier Gregoire)(Pevná vazba)

Revealing the entirely unknown and yet rich story of the remarkable Flightmaster, the OMEGA pilot's

Olympia - The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (Waterfield Robin)(Pevná vazba)

The remarkable story of the Ancient Olympic Games, narrated in invigorating style by a leading classical scholar and

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Marchand Suzanne L.)(Pevná vazba)

'This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement.'--Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China--but its secret

Henry, Himself (O'Nan Stewart)(Pevná vazba)

Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humour, intelligence and compassion. In Henry, Himself he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century

The Police: Every Little Thing: The Adventures of Sting, Stewart and Andy (Stafford Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

Edmund de Waal: Ten Thousand Things (Simon Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate craftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist art and music, Edmund de Waal's ensembles of

Grandma's Gardens (Clinton Hillary)(Pevná vazba)

From mother-daughter team Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton comes a celebration of family, tradition and discovery, and an ode to mothers, grandmothers and the children they love. Grandma Dorothy shared her love of gardens with her daughter, Hillary, and her granddaughter, Chelsea. She taught

The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life (Norman Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama--a story by turns inspiring and shocking--from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he

Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Poulain Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats's

The One, Other, and Only Dickens (Stewart Garrett)(Pevná vazba)

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens's novels but that go regularly unnoticed in Dickensian criticism: the linguistic infrastructure of his textured prose. Stewart, in effect, looks

State of Terror (Penny Louise)(Pevná vazba)

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise--State of Terror. State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of