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Publicado por Penguin Books / Granta, London England, 1995
ISBN 10: 0140140301ISBN 13: 9780140140309
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
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Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Paperback. Reef. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Remainder mark to edge. Crease to corner back cover. This book is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Triton, who at the age of eleven goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a maritime biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. As Triton recounts his story, an extraordinary voice emerges: naive and knowing, fearful and brave, a boy becoming a man in a world on the brink of chaos. 190 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).
Publicado por Penguin Books / Granta, London England, 1991
ISBN 10: 0140142304ISBN 13: 9780140142303
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations Simon Schama, the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham. Schama examines this death, and how Wolfe was made to die again - through the spectacular painting by Benjamin West, and through the writings of the 19th-century historian Francis Parkman. Schama's second death concerns Parkman's uncle, George Parkman of Harvard Medical College, who disappeared in 1849 in mysterious circumstances and who was rumoured to have been murdered by a colleague. Through these incidents, Schama sheds light on the writing of history, the history of history, and the relationship of "story" to "history". We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Publicado por Penguin Books / Granta, London England, 1991
ISBN 10: 0140142142ISBN 13: 9780140142143
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
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Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. Hardcover. Lilac and Flag. An Old Wives' Tale of a City. Part Three of a Trilogo. Price clipped to D/J. Slight browning through age to edge of back D/J. This book is set in three places. The first is a village, high in the mountains. An old woman lives there. Although we never learn her name or much about her, she is the one who tells us the story of Lilac and Flag. 'Lilac' and 'Flag' are the pet names of a young man and woman, struggling to find a way to be lovers. They disappear into Troy. Troy is the second place of the novel. There is a third place in the novel, and it is the most strange. It appears to be a ship, although it is one that can travel on both water and land. It is entirely white and every cabin is frist class. It has no lifeboats or lifebelts, and no one seems to be in any danger. No one seems to be in a hurry. Everyone seems to have all the time in the world.213 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).