Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
A History of Britain - Volume 1
- At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
Engelsk Paperback
A History of Britain - Volume 1
- At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
Engelsk Paperback

411 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama''s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded ''at the edge of the world'' or right at the heart of it?

Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.

The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781847920126
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1847920128
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 2009
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
233mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 2009
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge