Ian Mortimer Libros Populares
Ian Mortimer Biografía y Hechos
Ian Mortimer es un deportista canadiense que compitió en piragüismo en la modalidad de aguas tranquilas. Ganó una medalla de bronce en los Juegos Panamericanos de 2003 en la prueba de C2 500 m.[1] Palmarés internacional Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Ian Mortimer. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Ian Mortimer
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Among the Bohemians
Virginia Nicholson'Racy, vivacious, warmhearted. Offers an illuminating and wellresearched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago' TLSSubversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic c...
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Restoration
Tim HarrisThe late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration...
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Now We Are Forgiven
Tim LottA brilliantly observed story of crises and reconciliations within families and stepfamilies and the conflict between Millennials and their Baby Boomer parents. Funny, dark, y...
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King and Emperor
Janet L. NelsonA DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of SheWolve...
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Aristocrats
Stella TillyardA fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the...
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A History of Scotland
Bruce Lenman & J.L. MackieA history that is equally entertaining and enlightening, illustrating all of the changes of power and intricacies that are necessary to understand the interrelation between England...
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Finding Peggy
Meg HendersonNow features neverbeforepublished extra chapterGlasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in...
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Sir Francis Drake
Dr John SugdenHow well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years afte...
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Restoration
Rose TremainThe bestselling classic from a 'magnificent storyteller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenthcentury court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charmi...
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Holy Warriors
Jonathan PhillipsIn his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary...
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The Elizabethans
A. N. WilsonEngland under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscre...
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The Armchair Diplomat on Europe
Melissa RossiIt happens all the time: you're watching the Champion's League, pondering Robert Kilroy Silk's unnatural glow, reading the latest newspaper debate about EU bendy banana laws, and t...
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Soul of the Age
Sir Jonathan BateHow did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a k...
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Becoming Queen
Kate WilliamsOur perception of Victoria the Queen is coloured by portraits of her older, widowed self her dour expression embodying the repressive morality propagated in her time. But Becoming...
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Queens of the Conquest
Alison WeirFull of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Da...
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Devil's Brood
Sharon PenmanIn this gripping tale of passion, politics and conflict, King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor and three eldest sons when they enter into a rebellion ag...
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A Daughter's Love
John GuyLeading British historian John Guy, author of Thomas Becket and My Heart is My Own, uncovers one of the most touching and compelling family relationships in history in A Daughter's...
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Death in Florence
Paul StrathernBy the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medic...
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Restoration London
Liza PicardHow did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What makeup did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing pic...
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I Never Knew That About Royal Britain
Christopher WinnWith the royal wedding around the corner, there no better time than the present to get acquainted with Royal BritainBestselling author Christopher Winn explores Britain's royal pa...
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The Black Prince of Florence
Catherine Fletcher‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years o...
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Noble Ambitions
Adrian TinniswoodFrom the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided wit...
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Common People
Alison LightShortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'A remarkable achievement...should become a classic.' Margaret Drabble'Light writes beautifully...Common People is part memoir, part t...
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The Royal Highland Fusiliers
Trevor RoyleThe Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: T...
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Edward II (Penguin Monarchs)
Christopher Given-Wilson'He seems to have laboured under an almost childlike misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmle...
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Royal Gardeners
Alan TitchmarshAlan Titchmarsh takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of Britains royal gardens from medieval times to the present day. Taking in existing royal gardens as well as man...
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma SmithA THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to se...
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Katherine Swynford
Alison Weir'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first fulllengt...
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Summary of Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Different societies see landscapes differently. For example, an Elizabethan trav...
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David Starkey's Music and Monarchy
Dr David StarkeyFor the kings and queens of England, a trumpet fanfare or crash of cymbals could be as vital a weapon as a cannon. Showcasing a monarch’s power, prestige and taste, music has been ...
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William IV (Penguin Monarchs)
Roger KnightWilliam IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but h...
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Elizabeth's London
Liza Picard'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating timemachine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the pract...
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Jack Sheppard
William Harrison AinsworthA master of drinking, whoring, theft and escape!While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, ...
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The Inheritance of Rome
Chris WickhamThe idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense ‘dark age’ has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians. How could a world still so pr...
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Salt
Mark KurlanskyHomer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginnin...
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Gwynne's Kings and Queens
Nevile GwynneDo you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate educator Mr Gwynne is back – ...
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Richard III
Chris Skidmore'Fresh, gripping and vivid' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Exhaustively researched and scrupulously evenhanded' David Starkey 'A portrait that chills you to the bone' Leanda de Lisle, Th...
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Edward III and the Triumph of England
Richard BarberA fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from awardwinning author and historian Richard BarberThe destruction of the French army at Créc...
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A Distant Mirror
Barbara TuchmanThe fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos a...
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Summary of Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The city is so proud, so grand, and in some places so beautiful, but it also displ...
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The Bookseller of Florence
Dr Ross King'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings ...
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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
Terry DearyAh, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we?Well, as it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and for the pas...
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony BaleA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it. 'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never se...
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Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
Paul DohertyThe story of a queen known as 'the shewolf' and a fresh view of an infamous murder...In a colourful nonfiction narrative, which provides an evocative setting for a scramble for wea...
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Confessions of an Eco Sinner
Fred PearceThe road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fairtrade and then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles real...
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Culloden
Paul O'Keeffe'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale one of the most dramatic in our island's history and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the B...
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Samuel Pepys
Claire TomalinFrom the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a nav...
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Great Britain's Great War
Jeremy PaxmanJeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.We may think we ...
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Living Like a Tudor
Amy LicenceTake a 500year journey back in time and experience the Tudor Era through the five senses.Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to ...
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Oh Happy Day
Carmen Callil'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book ReviewIn this remarkable book, Carmen ...
