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Imperial Vanities The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

Imperial Vanities The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

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‘A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson’s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché “rattling good yarn” might have been coined to describe.’ RICHARD HOLMES ‘A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson’s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché “rattling good yarn” might have been coined to describe.’ RICHARD HOLMES ‘Victorian Britain, that seemingly…

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‘A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson’s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché “rattling good yarn” might have been coined to describe.’ RICHARD HOLMES

‘A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson’s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché “rattling good yarn” might have been coined to describe.’ RICHARD HOLMES

‘Victorian Britain, that seemingly most conformist of ages, was in fact teeming with eccentrics. The fabulous Baker Brothers were eccentric in a conformist way for the time: Sir Samuel searched for the source of the Nile; Baker Pasha became leader of the Ottoman army. But it was that epitome of empire, and epitome of the Christian English gentleman, who was the most peculiar of them all: ‘Chinese’ Gordon is finally depicted as the anarchist he really was as he marched to his death against the Mahdi. It is Thompson’s triumph that he gives these characters, straitjacketed first by their time, and then by history, the freedom to dance across the page once more.’ JUDITH FLANDERS

Imperial Vanities is an adventure story in the high tradition, ranging from the Upper Nile, to Ceylon, Egypt and the slave markets of the Balkans. Livingstone, Speke and Burton also make an appearance, with the shadowy and elusive Laurence Oliphant spying from the sidelines. Written with Thompson’s masterly touch, this is history at its best.

‘A tale of Empire at its most eccentric. Part biography, part history, part adventure yarn, Imperial Vanities is an ingeniously enjoyable read.’ Fergus Fleming

Langue
en
Version
Broché
Date de sortie initiale
20 janvier 2003
Nombre de pages
320
Illustrations
Non

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Auteur principal

Brian Thompson

Editeur principal

HarperCollins

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant
Libri GmbH
Adresse électronique du fabricant
gpsr@libri.de
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Hauteur de l’emballage
24 mm
Hauteur du produit
20 mm
IA générée
Non
Largeur d’emballage
129 mm
Largeur du produit
129 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d’emballage
198 mm
Longueur du produit
198 mm
Poids de l’emballage
273 g
Porno
Non
Édition
New edition

EAN

EAN
9780006532217

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Biographies et Histoires vraies

Histoire

Histoire

Périodes

Temps modernes

Histoire postmoderne

Régions et pays

Afrique

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Langue

Anglais

Type de livre

Paperback

Periode

18e eeuw

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