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Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric by Piers Brendon
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falseho ...Show more
The Dark Valley - A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia - the reader is taken through ten years dominated by ...Show more
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