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The Obelisk and the Englishman

Author : Dorothy U. Seyler
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633880370
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Obelisk and the Englishman written by Dorothy U. Seyler and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William John Bankes (1786–1855) was a pioneer in the nascent study of the language, history, and civilization of ancient Egypt. At the Abydos Temple he discovered the King List — a wall of cartouches listing Egyptian kings in chronological order — which was vital to the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. At Philae he uncovered a fallen obelisk, which he arranged to be transported back to England. And in modern-day Jordan he was the first European to make sketches and site plans of the “lost” city of Petra. Bankes’s life was rich and full, and his discoveries have proven to be quite valuable and influential. But, living in an era when homosexuality was a capital offense, he was persecuted for being gay and threatened with imprisonment and execution. His decision to travel and pursue his love of art and architecture went against his father’s wishes that he follow in his footsteps and become a politician. Despite such obstacles, Bankes’s pioneering work on ancient temples and artifacts now enriches the knowledge of modern Egyptologists, and his art collection and decorative talents can be enjoyed by those who visit his home, a National Trust estate — with the obelisk from Philae still raised on the south lawn. Enhanced by many of Bankes's drawings and paintings, this engaging story is full of vivid detail about the beginnings of Egyptology, Regency England, and a fascinating individual, and it sets the record straight about Bankes's crucial role in setting the stage for the work of later scholars.

The Englishman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Monthly Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

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Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register

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Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada ...

Author : Englishman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada ... written by Englishman and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada, Etc

Author : Montgomery Gibbs
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada, Etc written by Montgomery Gibbs and published by London : Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. This book was released on 1874 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada [by M. Gibbs]. With appendix containing the shooting and fishing grounds of North America

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Author : Montgomery Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada [by M. Gibbs]. With appendix containing the shooting and fishing grounds of North America written by Montgomery Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The English

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303589
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The English written by Jeremy Paxman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race? Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century. “Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair

The Unfortunate Englishman

Author : John Lawton
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190677
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Unfortunate Englishman written by John Lawton and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British agent is drawn to Berlin’s bridge of spies in this “superlative Cold War espionage story” from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels (The Seattle Times). It’s the summer of 1961, and the inscrutable Khrushchev is developing plans for something that could change the course of the Cold War. As he and Kennedy gamble with the fate of millions of lives, Cockney East-Ender-turned-spy Joe Wilderness is thrust into the conflict. Enlisted by MI6 to set up shop in Berlin, Wilderness returns to the city where he spent his postwar years, where a former paramour is under threat, and where the dividing line between the West and the Soviets will soon be crossed. As the Russians start building the wall, two agents find themselves trapped on opposing sides: an unfortunate Englishman in the Lubyanka in Moscow, and a KGB operative in London’s Wormwood Scrubs. Now, Wilderness has a new mission: Swap the prisoners on Berlin’s bridge of spies. But, as a former black marketer, Wilderness is also working a personal angle—just to make it interesting, just to make it profitable, just to make it a little more dangerous. What can possibly go wrong? Named by the Daily Telegraph as one of “50 Crime Writers to Read before You Die,” John Lawton is “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “[The Joe Wilderness novels] are meticulously researched, tautly plotted, historical thrillers in the mold of . . . Alan Furst, Phillip Kerr, Eric Ambler, David Downing and Joseph Kanon.” —The Wall Street Journal “Rich, inventive, surprising, informed, bawdy, cynical, heartbreaking and hilarious. However much you know about postwar Berlin, Lawton will take you deeper into its people, conflicts and courage. . . . Spy fiction at its best.” —The Washington Post

An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt, 1863 to 1887

Author : Samuel Selig de baron Kusel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt, 1863 to 1887 written by Samuel Selig de baron Kusel and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engineering News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering News written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blue Guides England

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Guides England written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's magazine [ed. by E. Moxon].

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's magazine [ed. by E. Moxon]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Homes, Period I-[VI] ...: Period IV, v. 2

Author : Henry Avray Tipping
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book English Homes, Period I-[VI] ...: Period IV, v. 2 written by Henry Avray Tipping and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landmarks of the American Revolution

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195128494
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of the American Revolution written by Gary B. Nash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775, on the green of Lexington, Massachusetts, 2,200 British minutemen fired upon the local militia -- seventy colonial farmers and village artisans in total. The British suffered staggering losses: half of their troops died. And so began the American Revolution. In Landmarks of the American Revolution, fourteen key sites and numerous secondary locales show with rich detail and fascinating anecdotes where the War of Independence took place. In addition to the Lexington-Concord Battle Site, historian Gary Nash features Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the out-of-work, 28-year-old immigrant who went on to become one of the new nation's naval heroes lived; Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg, Virginia, a place emblematic of African Americans' role in the war; and many other significant places of the American Revolution. A dynamic journey through history that reveals all sides in the war -- loyalists, patriots, African American, Native American, women, British -- Landmarks of the American Revolution brings to life how a new nation came to be.