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The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to ...Show more
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew Roberts David Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem ' ...Show more
The Pursuit of Italy - A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples by David Gilmour
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The "Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and V ...Show more
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