wyszukanych pozycji: 5
The Earls of Strathmore
ISBN: 9781789555868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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141,49 zł |
The Lyons of Glamis 1350-1750
ISBN: 9781785074189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book revises the standard accounts of the Lyons of Glamis. It describes how the family emerged as an entity in the mid-fourteenth century because of Sir John Lyons links with a group of prominent crusaders, and how it expanded and progressed over the next four hundred years.
If there is a unifying theme to the seven essays in Part One, then it is the shift from a family structure largely based on feudal values to one that promoted the political and economic independence of its members. The essays provide a backdrop for the fifteen genealogies that follow in Part Two. They deal with the... This book revises the standard accounts of the Lyons of Glamis. It describes how the family emerged as an entity in the mid-fourteenth century because...
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87,80 zł |
The Lyons of Glamis 1750-2000
ISBN: 9781789552461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,92 zł |
Like A Rolling Stone: The Life and Travels of George Francis Lyon, RN, FRS
ISBN: 9781787193932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a rare combination of African and Arctic explorer. A 'pop star' of his day, he caught the public's Romantic imagination by battling against untrustworthy allies, callous slave owners, destitution, and disease in the desert, and by struggling against freezings, hunger, thirst, and over-exertion in the Polar region. The geographical detail in his journals helped to lay the path for other explorers and his genuine interest in the communities he visited, very unusual for the time, proved invaluable to later anthropologists. After serving on several ships, he... George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a rare combination of African and Arctic explorer. A 'pop star' of his day, he caught the public's Romantic ima... |
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82,92 zł |
Wellington's Little-Known General
ISBN: 9780755216376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The book gives an account of the extraordinary life of Sir James Lyon who was born posthumously on board a transport ship returning to England after the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775). The greater part of it deals with his participation as an infantry officer in several of the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Egypt (1801), the Peninsula (1808-11), North Germany (1813-14), and Waterloo (1815). Most of the remainder looks at his involvement in the post-war political and social unrest in England around the time of the Peterloo Massacre (1819), and in the West Indies...
The book gives an account of the extraordinary life of Sir James Lyon who was born posthumously on board a transport ship returning to England after t...
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87,80 zł |