Rack, Rope and Red-hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments - Tapa blanda

Abbott, Geoffrey

 
9780747239840: Rack, Rope and Red-hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments
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ISBN 10: 0747239843 ISBN 13: 9780747239840
Editorial: Headline Book Publishing, 1995

Sinopsis

"Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages.

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Acerca del autor

On leaving the RAF in 1974, Geoffrey Abbott became a member of the Body of Yeoman Warders and lived with his wife in HM Tower of London. He now lives in the Lake District, where he enjoys writing, visiting castles and being Mace Bearer to the Mayor of Kendal.

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Editorial
Headline Book Publishing
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0747239843
ISBN 13 
9780747239840
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
Contacto del fabricante
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