Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0297832743 ISBN 13: 9780297832744
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. The English cottage is an icon for our times. Whether a harmonious blend of timber-frame and thatch or golden Cotswold stone, it symbolizes country life at its most seductive - a chance to return to the rural Eden that was lost to most of us with the Industrial Revolution.The picture of cottage life is an attractive and enduring one that has fascinated writers and artists for the last two hundred years. But this book shows that life in the English country cottage was far from being the idyll that many of us suppose. From the medieval village right through to the twentieth century, the author traces the history of the cottage, exploring how cottages came to be built, and how their appearance was affected by social forces and changing trends.But the focus is firmly on people: how cottage dwellers spent their time, how they were treated by their social superiors, what they ate and where they slept, and how they decorated and furnished their homes. Life in the English Country Cottage is a history of both the myth and the reality of life for the majority of the population over the last seven centuries.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 029781849X ISBN 13: 9780297818496
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Britain's most controversial historian and diarist on 75 years of the Conservative Party and its, in his view, failure to staunch the decline of Britain as a nation-state.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0297816497 ISBN 13: 9780297816492
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Inside British politics and upper class social life in the decade before the first world war-by the daughter of the Prime Minister and Liberal leader,H H Asquith. Hitherto and revealing unpublished letters and diaries of a Prime Minister's influential daughter.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 1993
ISBN 10: 0297813803 ISBN 13: 9780297813804
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. New Ed. Vignettes of drawing-room politics and gossip from the 'public and private' diary entries of Chips Channon.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 0297795368 ISBN 13: 9780297795360
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st UK edition. Marlene Dietrich's own story, from her wartime childhood in Berlin to her career as a star.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 0297813994 ISBN 13: 9780297813996
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated edition. The rise of industrial society in Western Europe, the history of one of the greatest banks in the world, the fate of a all are woven together in this account of Sal. Oppenheim Jr & Cie., the illustrious private bankers of Cologne. The Oppenheim bank was founded more than 200 years ago. The family emerged from the Jewish ghetto and, over the decades, became, along with the Rothschilds, the most prominent representatives of German Jewry. In spite of its conversion to the Christian faith, the family was faced with a dramatic struggle for survival during Hitler's regime.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0297847457 ISBN 13: 9780297847458
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the golden era of British athletics. Between them they won three Olympic gold medals, two silvers, one bronze, and broke a total of twelve middle-distance records. They were part of the landscape of the late seventies and early eighties -- both household names, their exploits were watched by millions (in an age before video, satellite and Sky Sports, the BBC Nine O'Clock News was often interrupted to accommodate their successes). As far apart as possible in terms of class and upbringing -- Ovett is the art student, the long-haired son of a market-trader from Brighton, a natural athlete; Coe's formative years were spent under the rigorous training routine of Peter Coe, a self-taught trainer who referred to his son as 'my athlete' -- their rivalry burned as intense on the track as away from it. The pendulum swung between the pair of them -- each breaking the other's records, and, memorably, triumphing in each other's events in Moscow in 1980 -- for the best part of a decade, until the final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 . . . Twenty years on, Pat Butcher, a runner himself and athletics correspondent of The Times in the eighties, has spoken at length to both athletes; to Coe, the Tory MP, and to Ovett, whom he tracked down in Australia. He writes in depth about the British obsession with and dominance of middle-distance running, the mile, and speaks to many of the great 'milers' down the years, the likes of the Swedes Gunder Hagg and Arne Andersson, John Walker and, of course, Roger Bannister. The Perfect Distance is both a detailed re-creation and a fitting celebration of the greatest era of British athletics.
Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, 1993
ISBN 10: 029783195X ISBN 13: 9780297831952
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2000
ISBN 10: 0297842188 ISBN 13: 9780297842187
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson / Orion Publishing Group Ltd, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0297607936 ISBN 13: 9780297607939
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0297814672 ISBN 13: 9780297814672
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson, Limited, 1992
ISBN 10: 0297830791 ISBN 13: 9780297830795
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, 1982
ISBN 10: 0297780689 ISBN 13: 9780297780687
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: United Kingdom: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, 1991
ISBN 10: 0297830058 ISBN 13: 9780297830054
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Weidenfeld amp; Nicolson Ltd, United Kingdom, 1988
ISBN 10: 0297794337 ISBN 13: 9780297794332
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.