Télécharger le livre :  The Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Boer War
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million), the bloodiest (at...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Tree Hunters
For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had begun to collect trees. Within the space of a few years, hundreds of new specimen trees enriched...

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Parution : 2024-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Meetings With Remarkable Trees
Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits.With this astonishing collection,Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany. The sixty trees are grouped according to their own strong...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Dublin
'Unforgettable . . . no better compilers could have been found' - History Today'Dublin's past comes dazzlingly alive' - Publishing News'Erudite and practical simultaneously' - Gemma Hussey, Irish IndependentDublin's turbulent history, its intensely literary and...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2018-09-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Company of Trees
'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandThomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate,...

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Parution : 2015-09-10
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