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The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

Author : David Kemp
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550021591
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain written by David Kemp and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-01-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

The Living Church

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treasure Neverland

Author : Neil Rennie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191668648
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Neverland written by Neil Rennie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd even though they lived about three hundred years ago, but most have also heard of other pirates, such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook, even though these pirates never lived at all, except in literature. The differences between these two types of pirates - real and imaginary - are not quite as stark as we might think as the real, historical pirates are themselves somewhat legendary, somewhat fictional, belonging on the page and the stage rather than on the high seas. Based on extensive research of fascninating primary material, including testimonials, narratives, legal statements, colonial and mercantile records, Neil Rennie describes the ascertainable facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives and then investigates how such facts were subsequently transformed artistically, by writers like Defoe and Stevenson, into realistic and fantastic fictions of various kinds: historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, Hollywood films. Rennie's aim is to watch, in other words, the long dissolve from Captain Kidd to Johnny Depp. There are surprisingly few scholarly studies of the factual pirates - properly analysing the basic manuscript sources and separating those documents from popular legends - and there are even fewer literary-historical studies of the whole crew of fictional pirates, although those imaginary pirates form a distinct and coherent literary tradition. Treasure Neverland is a study of this Scots-American literary tradition and also of the interrelations between the factual and fictional pirates - pirates who are intimately related, as the nineteenth-century writings about fictional pirates began with the eighteenth-century writings about supposedly real pirates. 'What I want is the best book about the Buccaneers', wrote Stevenson when he began Treasure Island in 1881. What he received, rightly, was indeed the best book: the sensational and unreliable History of the Pyrates (1724).

Wall Paintings of Eton

Author : Emily Howe
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781857597875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Wall Paintings of Eton written by Emily Howe and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings which adorn the lower walls of the chapel at Eton College are arguably the most important surviving late-medieval murals in Northern Europe. Documented as having been painted between 1479 and 1487, they originally comprised some thirty-two scenes ranged in two registers on the chapel's north and south walls, recounting the miracles of the Virgin. Concealed for years with whitewash and panelling, it was not until the 1920s that the paintings were finally uncovered and their significance appreciated fully. This stunningly illustrated publication brings together the considerable body of recent research into these internationally important wall paintings, giving a comprehensive description and an account of their creation and patronage. It also includes a fascinating discussion on the Head Master's Chambers wall painting dated to around 1520 and discovered in 2005. AUTHOR: Emily Howe is wall paintings advisor to English Heritage and works closely with the Courtauld Institute's Department of Wall Painting. Henrietta McBurney is Keeper of Fine and Applied Arts at Eton College and was previously curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. Professor David Park is Director of the Conservation of Wall Painting Department at the Courtauld Institute of Art. SELLING POINTS: *Wall Paintings of Eton combines known facts about the wall paintings with the findings of recently commissioned scientific analysis *This is the first book on these important works since M. R. James's seminal publication The Frescoes in the Chapel at Eton College published over 100 years ago ILLUSTRATIONS: 214 colour

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Author : Mary P. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317758900
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts written by Mary P. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an introductory collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues, and applications. Focusing on manuscripts copied before 1100 in England, the selections gathered here consider their history, production, analysis, and significance. Drawn from a variety of published sources and new writings commissioned for this collection, these essays offer a thorough background in principles and practices, along with up-to-date coverage of new developments in paleography. This interdisciplinary collection introduces key subjects of research for Anglo-Saxon studies while suggesting potential developments and new directions within the field.

An Eton Ode

Author : John KIRK (Author of “An Eton Ode.”.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book An Eton Ode written by John KIRK (Author of “An Eton Ode.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Centurion

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Centurion written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Egyptian Art at Eton College

Author : Stephen Spurr
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999214
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Art at Eton College written by Stephen Spurr and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book presents a selection of the finest and most historically important works in the Myers Museum at Eton College, which possesses one of the world's finest collections of ancient Egyptian decorative arts. The core of the collection was brought together by Major W. J. Myers, an old Etonian who was posted to Cairo in the 1880s. Myers's hope was that the works would be an inspiration for future generations of Eton students; with the publication of this book the objects will have an impact on a much wider audience. The volume -- which discusses more than one hundred works of art, all reproduced in full color -- will be not only a useful reference but a source of pleasure for students and professionals alike. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Eton Bureau

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Eton Bureau written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England

Author : Anthony Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139449199
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.

The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589798406
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures written by W.C. Jameson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the “Madonna”) and a cache of gold, silver, and jewelry that was rumored to also contain the first Bible in America to seventeen tons of gold—its value equal to the treasury of a mid-sized nation—buried somewhere in northwestern New Mexico. What makes these tales even more compelling is that none of these known-to-be-lost treasures have been discovered, although modern detecting technology has made them eminently discoverable.

International Dictionary of Library Histories

Author : David H. Stam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579582449
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book International Dictionary of Library Histories written by David H. Stam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

The Eton Affair

Author : William Coles
Publisher : Legends Press
ISBN 13 : 9781789550429
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Eton Affair written by William Coles and published by Legends Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. A bittersweet story of a life-changing love. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'This is a charming and uplifting book' Piers Morgan What a read! Every schoolboy's dream comes true in this deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph' Alexander McCall Smith 'The Eton Affairis a beautiful book, managing to use a simple narrative voice without consequently bland style - honesty, beauty, and passionpervade the novel but so do humour, youthfulness and energy' Stuck in a Book 'The Eton Affairis an outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few male authors can write about romance in a way which appeals to women - but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly' Sunday Express 'My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I don't think any power on earth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes!' Boris Johnson 'Passionate and excruciatingly compelling' www.curledup.com, USA popular literary blog 'The writing is such that regardless of how much appeal the setting of Eton should have for all the Anglophiles out there, the delicate and deliberate prose will be what ensures the devotion of the readeruntil the very last page' Alcott and Earhart literary blog 'A brilliantly plottedand paced evocation of an affair between a 17-year-old schoolboy and his 23-year-old piano teacher in Eton in the spring of 1982, the Falklands war rumbling in the background' The Oldie 'This is a delightful storythat tumbles along, building tension again and again as both Kim and India throw caution to the wind putting their illicit love affair in constant danger of exposure' The Small Press Review 'It encompasses all the emotions of being in love, but also of lust, envy, and worries for the future; this is certainly one to read again' Student Direct, the UK's leading student newspaper 'One of the most romantic books I have ever read, beautifully written and characterised' Amazon 'the book is a thorough-going dissection of first love and, more specifically, first jealousy' Readme.cc 'Reading Coles' book has inspired me not only to listen more carefully and frequently to the Bach piano music which sits, ever ready, in my PC's iTunes Library...[but to play it]' Musings from a Muddy Island

National Union Catalog

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boy's Own Annual

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Boy's Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Country Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: