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Borderlines - A Journey in Thailand and Burma by Charles Nicholl
Category: Travel | Series: Eland Classics Ser.
In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of Kachin j ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci : The flights of the mind by Charles Nicholl
Category: Biography Memoir
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all t ...Show more
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl
Category: Classics | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they found expression for what it means to be human. Yet although Shakespeare's lif ...Show more
Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Eland Classics Ser.
Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and in the dog days of August 1880 he disembarked in ...Show more
The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
Category: Travel Literature
Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The time is the early eighties and the place - Colombia. The Fruit Palace, a dismal whitewashed cafe that legally dispenses tropical fruit juices, has another purpose as the meeting place for a variety of black market activities and the ...Show more
The Lodger by Charles Nicholl
Category: Biography Memoir
'One Mr Shakespeare that laye in the house...' In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's ...Show more
The Lodger : Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
Category: Biography Memoir
This edition is out of print as at September 2009. In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the drama ...Show more
The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl
Category: B FORMAT MULTIBUY SPECIALS
In 1593 the controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, and the official account - a violent quarrel over a bill - has long been questioned. This is a story of the Elizabethan underworld.
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
Category: Biography Memoir
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time. His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disa ...Show more
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
Category: History
History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In "Traces Remain", Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of "The Reckoning", "The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street" and "Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind", t ...Show more
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