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Turney, Catherine
Byron's Daughter: A biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh
". the first full-length biography of Elizabeth-Libby-Medora Leigh, the child of incest, born of Byron's passonate love affair with his half-sister Augusta." 320p. plates.bibliography.index Book
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Quennell, Peter
Byron : The Years of Fame
Original vintage Penguin edition "The story of Byron's life after he returned from the near East in the year 1811, until, condemned by public opinion and ostracized by fashionable society , he was forced, five years later to leave England for the last time." 279p. Neat, tight copy, age-toned paper, else fine. Book
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Blyth, Henry
A Fatal Passion
Alternative title : Caro: The Fatal Passion: The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb. "The young lady was Lady Caroline Lamb. wife of William Lamb. The young man was the literary lion of English Society Lord George Byron. TheIrs was the most tempestuous and tragic affair of the flamboyant Regency era.336p. bibliography. index/ Test neat and complete,slight damage to covers repaired. Book
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Runciman, Steven
A Traveller's Alphabet: Partial Memoirs
" The nearest the renowned historian Sir Steven Runciman will ever come to writing his autobiography" An amusing collection of places - and people - he encountered on his travels from Athos to Zion.214p. Crisp tight unmarked text, ffep missing. Ex-Library
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Mackenzie,Compton [ Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie]
My Life and Times : Octave Seven 1931-1938
Includes information on the publication of his "Athenian" and "Greek" Memories (dealing with events during WWI in Athens and the Aegean) and his prosecution under the Official SecTets Act for publishing details of espionage and political stupidities during that period.320p+plates, Neat, tight c0py, some minor library marks. Ex-Library
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To Be A King
Morrah, Dermot
"A privileged account of the early life and education of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, written with the approval of H.M. the Queen" 210p.+ plates Book
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Kelley, Kitty
The Royals
" Draws on more than one thousand interviews [and innumerable tabloid exposes ] to present a revelatory biography of Britain's embattled House of Windsor.547p. plates, notes bibliography, index Genealogical tables on end papers Book
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De Domenico,John E. G.
Land of a Million Elephants: Memoirs of a Canadian Peacekeeper
Book
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Yousafzai, Malala
To ja, Malala = I am Malala
"Hhistoria pakistan?skiej dziewczyny, kto?ra z naraz?eniem z?ycia walczy o prawa kobiet i ich doste?p do edukacji = A history of a Pakistani girl,, who at riks of her life , fought for women's rights and their access to education" Translated into Polish by Magdalena Moltzan-Malkowska. 327p. plates [12 Copies inWorldCat] Book
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Ja Chung,Ann
Echoes of the Rain
Picture diary by the mother of a son with Autism - 47 years of Love. Uplifting personal narrative in Korean and English about a Korean immigrant family in British Columbia and Toronto and the experiences of their Canadian born autistic son. 84p.illus.[NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Lamont-Brown, Raymond
Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World
The life of Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline bobbin boy to Steel King of America.284p. plates bibliography index Book
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Reynolds, John Lawrence
Leaving Home: The Remarkable Life of Peter Jacyk
"Petro (Peter) Jacyk survived two of the most horrendous events of the twentieth century: the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, instigated by Stalin and responsible for the deaths of untold millions and waves of invasion and slaughter from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Fleeing post-war Europe in 1949, he arrived in Canada with $7 in his pocket and horrific images in his memory. His adopted country would inspire a deep and lifelong love in Jacyk. Here at last, as he put it, he was free to live and free to succeed." Which he did as one of Canada's most successful businesmen.One of the founders of Arka Books he also became a dedicated philanthropist working tirelessly for the preservation of Ukrainian history, language and culture. 287p. + 8 pages of plates. . Book
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Hadjifotiou, Zachos [Chatzephotiou]
Love and War
Zachos Hadjifotiou was born in 1923 in Athens. At the age of 17, when the Germans invaded Greece, he fled to the Middle East and fought in Africa at Tobruk and El Alamein, and in Italy with the Rimini Brigade. This is his personal account of his personal and military adventures. English translation by Terry Crosfield. 166p. + 11 leaves of plates.[7 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Quennell, Peter
Byron : The Years of Fame
"The story of Byron's life after he returned from the near East in the year 1811, until, condemned by public opinion and ostracized by fashionable society , he was forced, five years later to leave England for the last time." 256p.frontis. index. Ffep missing, else fine. Book
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Blyth, Henry
Caro : The Fatal Passion - The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb
Book
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Noakes,Vivien
Edward Lear : The Life of a Wanderer
359p. illus incex Book
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Sullivan, Rosemary
Shadow Maker : The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Biography of Canadian poet, playwright and novelist Gwen MacEwen, includes her marriage in Greece to Nikos Tsingos, involvement in the Greek community on the Danforth, experiences in Greece and her translations of Greek literature. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. 406p. illus. index Book
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Sullivan, Rosemary
Shadow Maker : The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Biography of Canadian poet, playwright and novelist Gwen MacEwen, includes her marriage in Greece to Nikos Tsingos, involvement in the Greek community on the Danforth, experiences in Greece and her translations of Greek literature.Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. 406p. illus.index. Author signature on title page Book
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Origo, Iris
The Last Attachment ; The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli as Told in Their Unpublished letters and Other Family Papers
533p.bibliography.index Book
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Drinkwater, John
The Pilgrim of Eternity : Byron - A Conflict
415p, frontis. with tissue guard, plates bibliography.index. Text neat and clean. Some shelf wear with slight damage to head of spine Book
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Drinkwater, John
The Pilgrim of Eternity : Byron - A Conflict
415p, frontis. with tissue guard, plates bibliography. index. Neat tight copy, Spine sun faded, else fine. Donor inscription on ffep. Book
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Markovic, Mira
Answer
The author was the wife of former president of Serbia who was charged with war crimes and imprisoned for nearly five years, but died before sentence was pronounced. Offers an interpretation as to the cause of Yugoslavia's breakdown . 240p. Book
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Mendelsohn, Daniel
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
'A deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teache... the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual... But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to deeply echo The Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home" 302p. Review copy with publishers PR laid in Book
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McRae, Earl (Introduction By Trent Frayne)
Requiem for Reggie and Other Great Sports Stories
149p. Book
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Simonsen, Thordis
Dancing Girl : Themes & Improvisations in a Greek Village Setting
Experiences of a Norwegian-American girl living in a small Greek village in the Peloponnese Book
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Padwick, Constance Evelyn
Call to Istanbul
Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey. Book
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Yilmaz, Mustafa Kemal
Yaban ellerde kalanlar= What Remains in wild hands
[Aydin Poets and Writers Association Publication# #3]. 140p.illus. Book
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Ondaatje, Christopher
Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton 1842-1849 The India Years
Since reading a biography of him more than 25 years ago, Christopher Ondaatje has been fascinated with the still-enigmatic Sir Richard Francis Burton, 19th-century explorer, scholar, poet and British secret agent. With his dashing dark and sensual looks, towering physical presence and razor-sharp tongue, Richard Burton could have been invented by a Victorian novelist -- but he was very real, accomplishing an amazing range of intellectual and physical exploits. From his discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra, to his exploration of the source of the Nile, to his pilgrimage to Mecca, and his widely known beliefs on female sexuality, Burton was the star -- and scandal -- of the Victorian age. Despite the presence of several biographies on Burton, Ondaatje believed there were large gaps in the startling drama that was the explorer's life. Sindh Revisited is the author's account of his personal and physical quest to uncover the secrets of the early life of Richard Burton, and to discover the "devil" that drove this brilliant and restless adventurer.Ondaatje began his quest in Bombay, trying to discover' what it was about India (ha changed Richard Burton from a rebellious wayward youth into a man of courage, imagination, wisdom and power. His retracing of Burton's travel, through India is a passionate and richly layered meeting of past and present, magnificently illustrated with full cole photographs and historical illustrations.The result is not just a simple biography, but an account of a man's psychological and philosophical journey in search of answers the have long mystified biographers and historians. Large format heavy volume 351p. illus bibliography Book
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Payne,Robert
Het Goud Van Troje : Heinrich Schliemann en De Bedolven Steden Van Greikenland
"The Golf of Troy" discovered by Heinrich Schliemann. Translated into Dutch. 224p. maps bibliography Book
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Layton, David
Motion Sickness: a Memoir [SNEAK PREVIEW]
A publicity brochure announcing the publication of the autho's forthcoming memoir with an extract describing "David's disjointed upbringing, the comings and goings of his parents - famous Canadian poet Irving Layton and his mother Aviva" 9 pages, Signed on title page Brochure
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Shulman,Irving
"Jackie" ! The Exploitation of a First Lady
Analysis of the way magazines treated Jackie Kennedy Book
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Anderson, Christopher
Jackie After Jack : Portrait of the Lady
Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book
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Martin, Thomas
Athina Onassis Roussel : The Richest Girl in the World
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Voticky, Anka
Knocking on Every Door
[The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs) This extraordinary memoir describes the circuitous journey taken by Anka Voticky and her family in search for safety from the Nazis occupying Czechoslovakia -- a journey that took her and her family to faraway Shanghai. 160p. maps. plates index. Book
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Tomasov, Agnes
From Generation to Generation
[The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs #12] Agnes Tomasov's sweeping memoir of life under two totalitarian regimes [the Nazi regime in Slovakia then Soviet invasion of Prague on 1968] before finding safety in Canada. It is an ordinary tale of courage, love and hope in the face of tragedy. xxxvi,187p.maps, index.Author inscription on title page Book
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Fotheringham, Allan
Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries
Canadian journalist Allan Fotheringham recalls with irrepressable wit and profound enjoyment his life as an outspoken journalist and political gadfly whose comments have entertained millions of Canadians.233p. illus.Inscribed on title page Book
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Sweetman, David
Mary Renault : A Biography
Interesting biography of the author who wrote remarkable novels about Ancientl Greece 322p.plates, bibliography, index Book
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Sweetman, David
Mary Renault : A Biography
Interesting biography of the author who wrote remarkable novels about Ancienl Greece 322p.plates, bibliography, index Book
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Allen, Susan Heuck
Finding the Walls of Troy : Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik
The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had launched his career. Now, at long last, Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight in this fascinating archaeological adventure that restores the British expatriate Frank Calvert to his rightful place in the story of the identification and excavation of Hisarlk, the site now thought to be Troy as described in the Iliad. Frank Calvert had lived in the Troad--in the northwest corner of Asia Minor--excavating there for fifteen years before Schliemann arrived and learning the local topography well. Book
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Schliemann, Heinrich & Deuel, Leo
Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters, and Excavation Reports
A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters, and Excavation Reports. 405p. Illus [ B & W] bibliography index decorative end papers. Remainder mark, else fine Book
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Brough, James
The Prince and The Lily
Spanning three continents and two eras, here is the story of the love affair between the playboy Prince of Wales, Edward VII, and Lilly Langtry, the greatest international beauty of her day. Together they set a new standard of splendor and sensuality for an entire era-the golden Edwardian Age.Their conjunction was virtually inevitable, and their affair, played out over three decades, set the very unbuttoned tone of London society, released by the Prince, the Lily, and the Marlborough House set from the long, bleak, mourning-clad winter of Victorian respectability.... and burned as bright as the Edwardian era it inaugurated. alive with all the pageantry and personalities of an extraordinarily splendid time and with a sweep and grandeur that suggest the inexorable play of historic forces on the individual destiny 372p.plates index; Book
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Clarke, Austin
Pigs Tails 'n Breadfruit: Rituals of slave food : a Barbadian Memoir
Austin Clarke grew up in Barbados, enveloped in the heavenly smells and smoke of women cooking. From them, he learned how to prepare the beloved dishes of the island - Rich Golden Roast Pork, Fried King Fish, Breadfruit Cou-Cou and, of course, his very own Chicken Austintacious. He shares his recipes for these hearty meals and reminisces about the "slave" food that was so much a part of his life. Whether it's a story about the village butcher whose qualifications were somewhat suspect, or a sure-fire route to a woman's love through her stomach, Austin Clarke will make you hungry for the "hot cuisine" and spirit of the island. 248p. Inscribed by author 22 February 2002, else as new Book
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Yphantides, Nick
My Big Fat Greek Diet: How A 467-pound Physician Hit His Ideal Weight And How You Can Too
"The son of a Greek immigrant, Dr. Nick was known in San Diego as a big man with a big heart. Topping out at 467 pounds, he was a thirty-something, larger-than-life advocate for the poor who seemed like a jolly fat man. But when a battle with cancer inspired him to focus on his own health, he embarked on a lifestyle change that would drop him to a svelte 200 pounds. His book will inspire and equip readers to design their own weight-loss program around an "odyssey" that makes their heart sing and allows them to experience their own weight-loss miracle!"297p.illus Book
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LAMAZE Jean De
Alexandre Dumas
Demi-cuir noir avec plats Bordeaux , orné de motifs floraux dorés , encadrement fauve . Une biographie resituant le personnage et son oeuvre dans l'époque , L'Algérie , le chatelain de Monte-Christo , le salon de l'Arsenal , les films tirés de ses romans . - Richement illustrée en couleurs sur papier couché hors-texte et en noir et blanc . - 136 p. , 500 gr.
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GAUBERT Jean-Pierre
CAVAILLES Compagnon de Mermoz
Collection " Le Midi et son Histoire " . Complet de sa jaquette illustrée et de ses feuillets hors-texte de photographies en noir et blanc . Aviation . Biographie . - 320 p. , 850 gr.
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COTTINO JOSE
FRANCESCO FAA DI BRUNO.
(protettore delle serve)[COTTINO JOSE.]Francesco Faa di Bruno. Torino, 1976, in 8, 48 pp, numerose tavole della vita e della sua ricca famiglia, br. [Euro 10,00]
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SCHWARZSCHILD LEOPOLD
KARL MARX.
(Karl Marx)[SCHWARZSCHILD LEOPOLD.]Karl Marx. Paris, Pavois, 1950, in 16, 398 pp, cop.con ritratto. [Euro 9,00]
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VIVIANI OLINDO
IL CARDINALE BARTOLOMEO BACILIERI VESCOVO DI VERONA
8°pp246, robusta leg. cart,con titoli oro al pietto e dorso, ill.n.t.
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Strutt, R J
Life of John William Strutt Third Baron Rayleigh
439pp VG/G augmented edition, dw dusty and soiled, overall very good.
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Bryan, G S
Edison l'uomo e la sua vita
326pp G/none rilegatura in quarto pelle, iscrizione sulla sguardia e ultima pagina di testo, sigla alla prima pagina e qualche sottolineatura in matita blu all'interno. Bruniture. Manca il ritratto in antiporta.
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