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Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
Category: Poetry
A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in ...Show more
Shots from The Front: The British Soldier 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes
Category: Military
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy' (2003), of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes, one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Milita ...Show more
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
Category: Biography
In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir. 'Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of ' ...Show more
Soldiers Army Lives & Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Holmes Richard
Category: Military
Soldiers : Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
Category: History
A magisterial new history of the British soldier - a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'. From battlefield to barrack-room, this book is stuffed to the brim with anecdotes and stories of soldiers from the army of Charles II, through Empire and two World Wars to mo ...Show more
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
Category: History
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since 1660 the army has evolved and adapted, but the social organisation of the men has changed less, with the major ...Show more
The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Science & Natural History
DoP 2008 UK The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to ...Show more
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Science & Natural History
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonde ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Science
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped ...Show more
The Age of WonderHow the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: History
The Age of Wonderis a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by t ...Show more
The Compact Guide: the Napoleonic Wars by Richard Holmes
Category: History | Series: The\Compact Guide Ser.
Written by one of Britain's best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new condensed and accessible edition This is popular history at its most engrossing, providing a vivid introduction to Napoleon's astonishing career and hi ...Show more