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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: D2-7/8/9 Title: History of England from the Accession of James II 3 volumes III/IV/V Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Publisher: A L Burt Price: 135.00 Description: Sold individually at $45.00 each. Three volumes in very good condition but for some small spotting on the burgundy red cloth cover of the Burt's edition, the book are in very good condition but for these markings. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England.There are only 3 volumes in this particular set It covers the 17-years period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the co-regency of William III and Mary II, up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period. He consciously fused the picturesque, dramatic style of classical historians such as Thucydides and Tacitus with the learned and factual approach of his 18th-century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own 1828 "Essay on History". The History is famous for its prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency. Karl Marx referred to him as a "systematic falsifier of history". His tendency to see history as a drama led him to treat figures whose views he opposed as if they were villains, while his approved characters were presented as heroes. Macaulay goes to considerable length, for example, to absolve his hero King William III of any responsibility for the Glencoe massacre . the books are clean , solid , no marking or spoiling inside , vol 3 has 475 pages, vol 4 481 pgs, vol 5 482 pgs including a large index of 50 pages. It is very confusing as the books had a different set up from the other set of Macaulay (see D2-4/5/6) .... a complete set could be made mixing the two editions, but the volume 3 seems moe complete on Everyman's library , A must read for the English History's lover. Order Now! BookId: D3-0002 Title: Jeanne D' Arc Maid of Orleans Deliverer of France with Fac-similes of Documents and Maps Author: T Douglas Murray Publisher: William Heinemann Price: 180.00 Description: partially uncut Order Now! BookId: D3-0003 Title: Joan of Arc Author: Lord Ronald Gower Publisher: John C Nimmo Price: 130.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D3-001456 Title: The Wild Frontier More Tales from the Past Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978 Price: 25.00 Description: The Wild Frontier , More tales from the past by Pierre Berton .The storie read like fiction , but they are all true , the product of careful archival research . Two centuries and over four thousand miles are met in these stories from Vancouver Island Forests to the Coast of Labrador. Buckram cover book , dust jacket in very good condition , endpapers illustrated with portraits of some of the stars of its tales, a few maps , 239 pages .as new condition . Order Now! BookId: D3-001457 Title: The Dionne Years Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 Price: 22.50 Description: The Dionne Years, a Thirties Melodrama by Pierre Berton .This story is history , it is about a miracle that first turned into a melodrama , and later into a tragedy . a book about media-exploitation and more . . Buckram cover book , dust jacket in very good condition , endpapers illustrated with portraits of some of the newspapers editions titles, a number of photographs , 235 pages .as new condition . Order Now! BookId: D3-001458 Title: The Great Depression Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: McCLelland & Stewart Price: 28.00 Description: No dust jacket , as new book , 555 pages. Order Now! BookId: D3-0017 Title: Growing for Cooking Author: Francis Stark Publisher: Castle Books Price: 15.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D3-0019 Title: How to grow Fruits and Vegetables Better homes and gardens Author: various Publisher: Better homes and gardens Price: 2.25 Description: Order Now! BookId: D3-1 Title: The adventure of English 500 A D to 2000 The Biography of a Language Author: Melvyn Bragg Publisher: Hodder & Sloughton Price: 40.00 Description: "Embracing elements of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Gullah, this 1,500-year story covers a huge range of countries and peoples. ...In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war—against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the speakers of English absorbed and made their own. Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978–2010, 2012–), and for the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new In Our Time, an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to more than 900 broadcast editions and is a popular podcast. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017. The Adventure of English is a British television series (ITV) on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, written by Bragg. The series ran in November 2003. The series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language. The book is in very good condition, as new, but no dust jacket . Blue cloth cover with name of author and title in white on spine. the book is solid , clean and easy to read , end paper on front have a Christmas' dedication to past owner. there are a few illustrations and photographs both in black and white and in color. good book , interesting as well, 354 pages with index. Order Now! BookId: D3-10 Title: The Philosophy of History in our time Author: hans Meyeroff Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Price: 22.00 Description: Philosophy of History in our Time is a 1960s era look at historicism, filled with essays from various historians that fall up and down the line on the "historicist" critique of history as a discipline. "Historical interpretations differ even when the experts agree on the facts." This sentence sums up the essence of the book. Worldviews, political leanings, biases, agendas and more all affect the retelling of past events. It's a buyer-beware world out there. Yet, it's better to be informed than uninformed, so readers must press on. One solution is to know the mindset of the historian your reading, another is to read multiple historians and hopefully get a well-rounded perspective. MEYERHOFF, HANS (1914–1965), U.S. philosopher. He was born in Brunswick, Germany, and went to the U.S. in 1934. From 1943 to 1948 he worked for the U.S. government. From 1949 on he taught philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote Time in Literature (1955), an analysis of scientific and literary renderings of time. He edited The Philosophy of History in Our Time (1959), and translated works by Max Scheler and Paul Friedlander. His publications include articles on philosophy, literature, psychology, and politics. He died in an automobile accident. A free speech plaza at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California is named after him. The book is very clean, an Doubleday anchor edition of 1959 , very clean in and out, no marking, spoiling or writing, no name of past owner , paperback in great shape, 350 pages (sorry I just found some writing on back of cover: refering to some markings in the book) ) Order Now! BookId: D3-11 Title: An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and verse Author: Henry Sweet / C T Onions Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press Price: 75.00 Description: An excellent introduction to Old English, this book begins with an elementary grammar, ably preparing students for the thirty-four texts that follow. Among the carefully selected stories, verses and histories can be found a wide sampling of dialects: West Saxon, Northumbrian, late and early Kentish and early Mercian. A comprehensive glossary is included. his popular reader--a standard since its first edition in 1876--helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan's Address to the English, with ample literary and historical notes. Henry Sweet (15 September 1845 – 30 April 1912) was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian. As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. In addition, Sweet published works on larger issues of phonetics and grammar in language and the teaching of languages. Many of his ideas have remained influential, and a number of his works continue to be in print, being used as course texts at colleges and universities. Very specialized book for the reader who intends to learn some of the old Anglo-Saxon language and literature of Old England .... the book is in very nice condition , red burgundy hard cover , with gold lettering for title , authors and Oxford coat of arms on the spine . A few pencil marks within the text and name of past owner on the end paper , a great glossary at the end for the Saxon language ... but all together clean and fascinating book 310 pages. Order Now! BookId: D3-12 Title: An Elementary Old English Grammar ( Early West Saxon ) Author: A J Wyatt Publisher: Cambridge university press Price: 35.00 Description: 1911. Reprint. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Binding remains firm Annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Order Now! BookId: D3-13 Title: The concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Author: H W Fowler / F G Fowler Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press Price: 100.00 Description: Rare 1928 Oxford English Dictionary , Bible paper, 1064 pages . Very complete dictionary. Book cover is 2 tones brownish, the pine id damaged and has been fixed ( split in the center) , title of book in gold letter on spine hardly visible, Coat of Arms of Oxford on front and back covers, some well used markings , Inside of book is very good ,except for one loose page (609).No writing or spoiling inside book . some cornered pages, an addenda of newer words or meaning of older words has been added from 1914. Order Now! BookId: D3-14 Title: The Age of Empire 1875-1914 Author: Eric Hobsbawm Publisher: Vintage Price: 40.00 Description: The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society. The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a book by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1987. It is the third in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 and The Age of Capital: 1848–1875. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy. Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA ( 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and spent his childhood mainly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive family. After serving in the Second World War, he obtained his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. In 1998, he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. He was president of Birkbeck, University of London, from 2002 until he died.In 2003, he received the Balzan Prize for European History since 1900, "for his brilliant analysis of the troubled history of 20th century Europe and for his ability to combine in-depth historical research with great literary talent." The book is a soft cover with some photographs of social classes on the cover . book is as new, but somewriting can be seen on the front end paper, the rest of the book is perfect , no writing,marking spoiling, very clean and solid on its spine. 403 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D3-15 Title: French Chivalry Author: Sidney Painter Publisher: Great Seal Books Price: 40.00 Description: The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical principles and practices of the feudal nobility. French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France Sidney Painter (September 23, 1902 – January 12, 1960) was an American medievalist and historian. He was a fellow of the Mediaeval Academy and professor of history and chairman of the department of history at Johns Hopkins University. Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University (AB 1925; PhD 1930). He was an influential member of American academia in the 1950s and served on many boards and committees. He was treasurer and secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies and was a member of the council of the Mediaeval Academy. He was made a fellow in 1953. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958. He wrote many influential books. His doctoral thesis was later published as "William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England", and was supervised by Professor Sydney K. Mitchell at Yale University. He was an expert in medieval institutions but also believed in relating history from personal perspectives. He argued that the reign of King John cannot be understood without an intimate knowledge of the barons and their families and the division of family lands at the time. He died in Baltimore at the age of 57. The book is an older paperback , with a Middle Age couple on horses as a cover. Black and white cover . The inside of the book is solid , a few annotations and writings by a past owner , easy to read and fair condition. 179 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D3-16 Title: France , the Nation and its development Author: William Henry Hudson Publisher: George G Harrap Price: 125.00 Description: French history. A very special First Edition, special cover for a prize of French at The Royal Grammar School in Newcastle-on-Tyne , in 1925. A very good hardcover copy, leather bound, gold lettering for the title and author name as well as a fleur-de-lys decoration on the spine, and a gold coat-of arms on the front of the book. label from the school prize on the inside cover. . Lightly bumped corners with some chipping on spine head and tail; Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Indexed. 631pg including index. The full title is : France the Nation and its development from Earliest Times to the establishment of the Third Republic. Eighty three illustrations , mostly photographs of castles, portraits of Famous people from Jeanne D'Arc to Napoleon III , some are pretty rare, family trees, documents reproductions, and more. A very nice book . William Henry Hudson – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist .Late he moved to England .He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888–1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s and was set in Wiltshire. He wrote history books as well (France , the nation and its development is one of them). In Argentina, Hudson is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him. The town of Hudson in Buenos Aires Province is named for him. Order Now! BookId: D3-16/17 Title: The French Revolution Vol I / vol II Author: Thomas Carlyle Publisher: Everyman's library J P Dent Price: 60.00 Description: Two volumes The french Revolution by Thomas Carlyle , a Classic text published by Everyman,s Library , in great condition , red cover with gold name of author and title on the spine . The first volume is very faded , the second volume is mush fresher . first volume 351 pages, volume II is 399 pages. They are both with very solid spine, clear text , easy to read, no marking or spoiling of any kind. great to read , looking god on a shelf. The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work (two volumes in this edition), first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the course of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. A massive undertaking which draws together a wide variety of sources, Carlyle's history—despite the unusual style in which it is written—is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution. Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course, he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and working as a translator. He found initial success as a disseminator of German literature, then little-known to English readers, through his translations, his Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825), and his review essays for various journals. His first major work was a novel entitled Sartor Resartus (1833–34). After relocating to London, he became famous with his French Revolution (1837), which prompted the collection and reissue of his essays as Miscellanies. Each of his subsequent works, including On Heroes (1841), Past and Present (1843), Cromwell's Letters (1845), Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), and History of Frederick the Great (1858–65), were highly regarded throughout Europe and North America. He founded the London Library, contributed significantly to the creation of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Scotland, was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1865, and received the Pour le Mérite in 1874, among other honours. Order Now! BookId: D3-2 Title: Hereward the Wake "last of the English" Author: Charles Kingsley Publisher: Ward,Lock & Co Price: 50.00 Description: Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. Kingsley's last historical novel, it was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk-hero. Hereward the Wake (c.?1035 – c.?1072) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base when he led the rebellion against the Norman rulers was the Isle of Ely, in eastern England. According to legend, he roamed the Fens, which covers parts of the modern counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk, and led popular opposition to William the Conqueror. Hereward is an Old English name, composed of the elements here, "army", and ward "guard" (cognate with the Old High German name Heriwart). The epithet "the Wake", first recorded in the 14th century, may mean "the watchful" or derive from the Anglo-Norman Wake family, which later claimed descent from him. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. Kingsley was a fervent Anglo-Saxonist, and was seen as a major proponent of the ideology, particularly in the 1840s. He proposed that the English people were "essentially a Teutonic race, blood-kin to the Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians". Kingsley suggested there was a "strong Norse element in Teutonism and Anglo-Saxonism". This is an older book , from 1900 or before , in good condition but lot of fading on the blue cloth cover , it has a very nice cover with engraved decor including coat of arms...no dust jacket. It was a gift and has a dedication from a mother to her son in 1918. 443 pages , the book is clean , no writing or spoiling , front end paper is missing. May be a first edition. Order Now! BookId: D3-3 Title: The making of the Middle Ages Author: R W Southern Publisher: Arrow Books Price: 28.00 Description: "This is the work of a man with a rare historical gift: the imagination to recreate the world of which he writes and the critical scholarship to make the exercise of imagination fruitful. . . . One of the most exciting books on history to appear in recent years." A distinguished historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries—the formative period of modern Western civilization. R. W. Southern describes the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization, analyzing a wealth of concrete, highly significant episodes. He recaptures the personal experiences and the individual consciences of the men who guided "the making of the Middle Ages. Sir Richard William Southern FBA, FRSL (8 February 1912 – 6 February 2001), who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian based at the University of Oxford. Condition: good. 1959 Second Impression. 288 pages. Blue paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Book has rolled spine. Light tanning to spine and edges.No writing or spoiling inside , no past owner name . Order Now! BookId: D3-4 Title: Medieval People Author: Eileen Power Publisher: Pelican Price: 35.00 Description: In this classic of social history, noted medieval scholar Eileen Power recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived during the Middle Ages. Drawing upon account books, diaries, letters, records, wills, and other authentic historical documents, she brings to vivid life Bodo, a Frankish peasant in the time of Charlemagne; Marco Polo, the well-known Venetian traveler of the 13th century; Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer's prioress in real life; a Parisian housewife of the 14th century; Thomas Betson, a 15th-century English merchant; and Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall, an Essex clothier in the days of Henry VII. Largely untouched by fame (with the exception of Marco Polo), the lives and activities of these common people offer a unique glimpse of various aspects of the medieval world — peasant life, monastic life, the wool trade, Venetian trade with the East, domestic life in a middleclass home, and more. Enlivened with charming illustrations and touches of humor, this scholarly, yet highly readable work "possesses a color, a dramatic touch that humanizes the dry bones of charters and documents." — New York Tribune . A specialist in medieval history, Eileen Edna LePoer Power was Director of Studies in History at Girton College, University of Cambridge from 1913 until 1921, Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics from 1921 until 1924, and Reader of the University of London 1924 until 1931. In 1931 she became the second woman to be appointed to the Chair of Economic History at the London School of Economics . The book is clean and good condition , no dust jacket , contains eight illustrations and has 212 pages . No writing or spoiling of any kind , a good book for your library . Order Now! BookId: D3-5 Title: The Waning of the Middle Ages Author: Johan Huizinga Publisher: Doubleday anchor Price: 25.00 Description: n The Waning of the Middle Ages, Huizinga paints a portrait of the conventions and customs of life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as they reflect an autumnal waning—herfsttij—of the Middle Ages' ideals. A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries and the Dawn of Renaissance. Johan Huizinga ( 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an important part. His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (also released as The Waning of the Middle Ages or Autumntide of the Middle Ages) (1919 Doubleday anchor book with illustrated cover , good condition, , the spine is still solid, no writing or spoiling within the book , name of past owner on end paper, 362 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D3-501039 ISBN: 0771065795 Title: Westviking Author: Farley Mowat Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 16.00 Description: The ancient Norse in Greenland and North America , a compelling and provocative reconstruction of the tenth-century voyages, sagas of piracy and exploration that led to the settlement of Greenland and the discovery of America before Columbus , by the Norse...Mowat dramatizes the struggle of man against nature... A great reconstruction by a great author. Soft cover in good condition, slight creasing on the cover, 493 pages. Order Now! BookId: D3-501040 ISBN: 0771066260 Title: Ordeal by Ice Author: Farley Mowat Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 18.00 Description: A study in terror, tribulation and triumph, Ordeal bi Ice is the thrilling chronicle of men who struggled, starved and finally conquered the capricious forces of ice in a century-search for the Northwest Passage. Here are found the narrative of Frobisher, Hudson, Munk, Hall and others...Soft cover , in good condition, with illustrations and maps , 428 pages. Order Now! BookId: D3-501041 ISBN: 0771066775 Title: Virunga Author: Farley Mowat Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: The Passion of Dian Fossey... In her passions, her faults, her uncompromising dedication, Dian Fossey was unique, and her story has all the elements of compelling drama: ambition and sacrifice, love, violence, witchcraft and murder- and of course the great lure of Africa itself, the dark continent . Book is new, in excellent condition, dust jacket is perfect, 380 pages maps and illustrations included on the endpapers, maps of Rwanda and the Karisoke research center . Order Now! BookId: D3-501119 Title: The Great Railway 1871-1881 Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D3-501120 ISBN: 0771013604 Title: The wild frontier ... More tales from the remarkable past Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: McCleland and Stewart Ltd, Toronto. 1978, Hardcover, Near fine in good dust jacket. 250 pages. Tall 8vo. Red cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket shows wear to extremities, price clipped. Illustrated Maps (drawn by Jack McMaster. "The stories in this book read like the wild West fiction; but all are true, the product of careful archival research, much of it previously unpublished" -One ex-Christmas gift ! Order Now! BookId: D3-501121 ISBN: 0771012438 Title: The promised land ... Settling the West 1896-1914 Author: Pierre Berton Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto, ON, 1984. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The completion of Pierre Berton's four-volume saga of the opening of the Canadian West in the years following confederation. Signed and dated April1984 by Pierre Berton , interior is clean. Dust jacket has not been price-clipped, 388 pages Order Now! BookId: D3-501621 Title: Peter Freuchen's adventures in the Arctic Author: Peter and Dagmar Freuchen Publisher: Julian Messner Price: 25.00 Description: Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (20 February 1886 – 2 September 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He is notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule Expeditions. From 1926 to 1940, Freuchen owned the Danish island Enehøje in Nakskov Fjord. During this period he wrote several books and articles and entertained guests. At this time, Freuchen became heavily invested in socialism and anti-fascism. Since 2000, the uninhabited island has been a part of Nakskov Vildtreservat, a wildlife reserve. n 1906, he went on his first expedition to Greenland as a member of the Denmark expedition. Between 1910 and 1924, he undertook several expeditions, often with the noted Polar explorer Knud Rasmussen. He worked with Rasmussen in crossing the Greenland ice sheet. He spent many years in Thule, Greenland, living with the Polar Inuit. In 1935, Freuchen visited South Africa, and by the end of the decade, he had travelled to Siberia.[ When Peter Freuchen died suddenly in 1957, his third wife, Dagmar, carried out to completion his work of assembling the best... The book has a blueish cloth cover with name of author and title in black letters on the spine. the dust jacket being in very poor condition, is kept in the book for what the information on it is worth. the end papers ( both front and back) have a map of the Arctic in green color.A portrait of Peter Freuchen, by his wife, as a frontis piece , page next to the title. No writing, marking or spoiling of any kind in the book . 383 pages Order Now! BookId: D3-501622 Title: Yukon , colour of the Land Author: Richard Hartmier Publisher: Lost Moose (Yukon) Price: 18.00 Description: Photographer Richard Hartmier spent years travelling throughout the territory in all seasons to take photographs of landscapes, people and wildlife. ... The result is a spectacular collection of rare and familiar photographs, including caribou in the high Arctic, leaning buildings in Dawson City and the frozen sweep of remote glaciers. Yukon: Colour of the Land is a bestseller with over 20,000 copies sold. The book is a softcover with pictural cover , no dust jacket , in very good condition . just a small introduction , after which it is all photographs , some are absolutely gorgeous . I went to yukon myself and I recommend the place for a visit .... very nice people as well ! 122 pages of Photographs. Order Now! BookId: D3-6 Title: Tudor England Author: S T Bindoff Publisher: Pelican Price: 15.00 Description: This is not the stuff of a straight, factual, chronological history. Instead, this is series of essays covering the economics of sheep raising and cloth making, the making of the English navy, the devaluation of coin, the rise of Puritanism, the lives of ordinary Englishmen and other topics. Although the book first appeared in 1950, it remains one of the best overviews of the period, with lots of interesting detail. The style is a little old-fashioned, with plenty of rhetorical flourishes and pithy summations which at times reminded me of the style of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and some long paragraphs could have been broken up to aid the reader, but the writing is clear. Thoroughly recommended. Stanley Thomas Bindoff (1908–1980) was an English historian who specialised in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods. He was the first professor of history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was the editor of The History of Parliament for the parliaments of 1509–1558, published in 1982. The book is clean , if older from 1954, but no marking and spoiling , binding is strong , a good study book. |
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