Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'(1987) WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY,GODWIN, WILLIAMIncludes a travel book and a biography of its author.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America(2011) THEODORA KROEBERVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Nature's Engraver(2007) UGLOW, JENNYTells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Dickens(2002) ACKROYD, PETERThis specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as compVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Perfect King(2008) MORTIMER, IANFrom the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England. He ordered hVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Doctor's War(2006) MCCARTY, AIDANAs an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
John Barleycorn(2009) LONDON, JACKPublished in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Two Lives of Charlemagne(2008) EINHARD,NOTKER THE STAMMERERA chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, Charlemagne. It describes his personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments inVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Strangest Family(2015) HADLOW, JANICEAn intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
No Easy Walk to Freedom(2002) MANDELA, NELSONAfter twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked free in February 1990. This book offers a collection of his articles, speeches, letters from underground, and the transcripts from his trials that demonstrates the charisma and determinatioVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Sun King(2011) MITFORD, NANCYDuring his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute contrVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Guilty Thing(2017) WILSON, FRANCESThe life of Thomas De Quincey – a dynamic and unique biography of the most mysterious member of the Wordsworth circle and the last of the Romantics.Vezava: Mehka30,28 € -
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Hope Against Hope(1999) MANDELSTAM, NADEZHDANadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap and he was arrested for the last time. 'My case will never be closed', Osip once said, and it is mostly through the courageous efforts of Nadezhda that his mVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Map That Changed the World(2002) WINCHESTER, SIMONHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life waVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eminent Victorians(2009) STRACHEY, LYTTONEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of CardVezava: Mehka15,41 €
