What I Saw in London, Or Men and Things in the Great Metropolis
Author : David W. Bartlett
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Great Exhibition
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Author : David W. Bartlett
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Great Exhibition
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Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Louis Antoine Godey
Publisher :
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Costume
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Includes music.
Author : Allison Lockwood
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838622728
The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
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Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1856
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Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : David Mckie
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857893106
In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of 26 remarkable British eccentrics on 26 unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired, and sometimes scandalized by the obsessional endeavors of visionary mavericks. Some of McKie's eccentrics, such as Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others, including the composer Peter Heseltine, who in the 1920s set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking and naked motorbike riding, rather less so. But together their fascinating stories illuminate some of the most secret and most extraordinary byways of British history. Here, quiet, unassuming streetscapes become sites of eccentric and uproarious sites of action. The triumphs and failures of the visionaries who thus transformed them—recaptured here in vivid and beguiling fashion—have each, in their own way, helped shape the island's rich and checkered history.
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1852
Category : American literature
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Author : Harold Frederick Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810835542
Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR