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Ackroyd, Peter Albion: The Origins Of The English Imagination 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032141. ISBN #0385497725 / 9780385497725. (filed under: England ) *
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Ackroyd, Peter Albion: The Origins Of The English Imagination 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032141. ISBN #0385497725 / 9780385497725. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: The Biography with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link past and present. A dazzling, highly original exploration of English culture from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, ALBION demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality imbues every form of cultural expression not just literature, but also painting, music, architecture, philosophy, and science. In an intricate, expertly crafted mixture of narrative and theme, Ackroyd travels through time and across cultural categories as he seeks out the roots and the essence of the English imagination. With an irrepressible curiosity and contagious enthusiasm, he moves from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, Hogarth to Hockney, Purcell to Vaughan Williams, Inigo Jones to Edward Lutyens. His lively biographical sketches and incisive exegeses of the work of figures both well known and less familiar deepen our understanding and appreciation of our inherited culture. Like London: The Biography , ALBION contains unexpected treasures, including a thought-provoking look at immigration and assimilation and a delightful digression into the English obsession with gardening. Black-and-white photographs and drawings, and two lavish four-color inserts add visual appeal throughout. Ackroyd s talent for distilling information and presenting it with novelistic flair shines on every page of ALBION. It is Peter Ackroyd at his most brilliant and exuberant.
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Ackroyd, Peter London Under: The Secret History Beneath The Streets 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076001. ISBN #0385531508 / 9780385531504. (filed under: England ) *
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Ackroyd, Peter London Under: The Secret History Beneath The Streets 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076001. ISBN #0385531508 / 9780385531504. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imagina tive, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, real and fictional, that dwell in darkness rats and eels, mon sters and ghosts. When the Underground s Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864, the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulfurous fumes, and named their engines after tyrants Czar, Kaiser, Mogul and even Pluto, god of the underworld. To go under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hid den world. As Ackroyd puts it, The vastness of the space, a second earth, elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in eq
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Ackroyd, Peter London: The Biography 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062762. ISBN #0385497717 / 9780385497718. (filed under: England ) *
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Ackroyd, Peter London: The Biography 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062762. ISBN #0385497717 / 9780385497718. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Here are two thousand years of London s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes al
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Ackroyd, Peter The Life of Thomas More Nan A. Talese 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023467. ISBN #0385477090 / 9780385477093. (filed under: England ) *
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Ackroyd, Peter The Life of Thomas More Nan A. Talese 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023467. ISBN #0385477090 / 9780385477093. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a magnificent reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a genre and a worldview Utopia , and, most famously, a Catholic martyr, who paid with his life when he refused to follow his sovereign, King Henry VIII, in severing England's ties with the Catholic Church. Born into the professional classes, Thomas More 1478-1535 rose by dint of formidable intellect and well-placed connections to become the most powerful man in England after the king. An exponent of what was called in his day "the mixed life," More combined medieval piety with worldly mastery of legal argument and the art of negotiation. Ackroyd dramatically shows how the clouds of Lutheran reformation that swarmed over the continent unleashed the storm of the early modern period that swept away More's world and took his life. He clarifies the whirl of dynastic, religious, and mercantile politics that brought the autocratic Henry VIII and the devout More into their fateful conflict. And he narrates the unrelenting drama of More's final days--his detention, trial, and execution--with a novelist's mastery of suspense. In Ackroyd's hands, this renowned "man for all seasons" emerges in the fullness of his complex humanity; we see the unexpected side of his character a preference for bawdy humor as well as his indisputable moral courage. Acclaimed for his magisterial biographies T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake , Peter Ackroyd has once again scored a triumph.
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Adams, Carol Ordinary Lives: A Hundred Years Ago Virago 1982 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or927027. ISBN #0860682390 / 9780860682394. (filed under: England ) *
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Andrew, Donna T.; McGowen, Randall Perreaus And Mrs. Rudd: Forgery And Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London University of California Press 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or985886. (filed under: England ) *
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Andrew, Donna T.; McGowen, Randall Perreaus And Mrs. Rudd: Forgery And Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London University of California Press 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or985886. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figures as John Wilkes, King George III, Lord Mansfield, and James Boswell, this story reveals the deep anxieties of this period of English capitalism. The case acts as a prism that reveals the hopes, fears, and prejudices of that society. Above all, this episode presents a parable of the 1770s, when London was the center of European finance and national politics, of fashionable life and tell-all journalism, of empire achieved and empire lost. The crime, a hanging offense, came to light with the arrest of identical twin brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, after the former was detained trying to negotiate a forged bond. At their arraignment they both accused Daniel's mistress, Margaret Caroline Rudd, of being responsible for the crime. The brothers' trials coincided with the first reports of bloodshed in the American colonies at Lexington and Concord and successfully competed for space in the newspapers. From March until the following January, people could talk of little other than the fate of the Perreaus and the impending trial of Mrs. Rudd. The participants told wildly different tales and offered strikingly different portraits of themselves. The press was filled with letters from concerned or angry correspondents. The public, deeply divided over who was guilty, was troubled by evidence that suggested not only that fair might be foul, but that it might not be possible to decide which was which. While the decade of the 1770s has most frequently been studied in relation to imperial concerns and their impact upon the political institutions of the day, this book draws a different portrait of the period, making a cause c l bre its point of entry. Exhaustively researched and brilliantly presented, it offers both a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents of the period.
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Andrews, Allen Proud Fortress: The Fighting History Of Gibraltar hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or971893. (filed under: England ) *
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Anthony, Evelyn Anne Boleyn hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1125825. (filed under: England ) *
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Arnim, Elizabeth Von Elizabeth And Her German Garden hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121773. ISBN #0860684237 / 9780860684237. (filed under: England ) *
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Asher, Michael Thesiger: A Biography Penguin UK 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087794. ISBN #0670837695 / 9780670837694. (filed under: England ) *
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Asher, Michael Thesiger: A Biography Penguin UK 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087794. ISBN #0670837695 / 9780670837694. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1979, the author of this work read "Arabian Sands" by W. Thesiger, which had an impact on his life and made him become a desert explorer. In tribute to Thesiger, he has written this biography of Thesiger s motivations and achievements. A man of great paradoxes and contradictions, Thesiger revered traditional peoples, but retained at the same time a profound pride in his own race and background. He felt most intensely alive when living on the same level as his tribal companions, yet rejoiced in his ability to return to the "civilized" world. Basing much of his work on extended interviews with Thesinger, the author also follows in Thesinger's footsteps, interviewing many of his former travelling companions and throwing new light on the celebrated Arabian expeditions.
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Association, Press Album of a Nation: The Many Faces of Britain Paddington Press 1979 hardcover. Dustjacket has some closed tears. . BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or874428. ISBN #0448228394 / 9780448228396. (filed under: England ) *
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Atkinson, R.J.C. Stonehenge And Avebury And Neighboring Monuments: An Illustrated Guide Her Majesty's Stationary Office 1974 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or857786. (filed under: England ) *
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Atterbury, Paul; Cooper, Suzanne Fagence Victorians At Home And Abroad 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073507. ISBN #1851773290 / 9781851773299. (filed under: England ) *
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Atterbury, Paul; Cooper, Suzanne Fagence Victorians At Home And Abroad 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073507. ISBN #1851773290 / 9781851773299. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Published on the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, this illustrated book is an opportunity to revisit the achievements of the Victorian period, putting aside the attitudes and judgements of the 20th century. The Victorians were expansive, ambitious, imaginative and confident. Makers of the modernworld, their extraordinary vision provoked revolutions in art and culture, in society, in science and industry, and in international trade. Their figurehead was Queen Victoria, whose coronation in 1838 heralded the most exciting period in modern history, when Britain emerged as a major imperial power trading nation. Exploring the essential characteristics of the Victorians, this book measures their achievements in all the many facetsof their turbulent society. At the same time, it highlightstheir willingness to face the many debates and divisions that fragmented their culture, and their attempts to come to terms with a new world order. Monarchy, family, Victoria's New Britain and the Gothic vision, sport, ships and trains, domestic life, death and religion, nature and landscape, interior decoration, the impact of world cultures and exoticism are all featured in this colourful snapshot of the Victorian vision of the world.
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Austin, G. E. Austin's Guide to Richmond, Easby, and Other Places of Interest G. E. Austin Trade Paperback. Clean text. B&W illustrations. Tears. Sm. stains.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or608982. (keywords: GREAT BRITAIN TRAVEL DESCRIPTION YORKSHIRE) (filed under: England ) *
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Babington, Margaret Romance of Canterbury Cathedral, The R. Tuck 1957 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Yellowing from age. Book #or811559. (filed under: England ) *
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Baines, Edward Baines's Account of the Woolen Manufacture of England David & Charles 1970 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or261818. (category: art) (keywords: K.G. Ponting Wool Industry) (filed under: England ) *
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