The English Dane

Author : Sarah Bakewell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409016277
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Dane written by Sarah Bakewell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania. Twists of fortune then found him captaining a warship for Napoleon before joining a British trading voyage to Iceland, where he staged an outrageous coup and ruled the country for two months. Much lay ahead, from imprisonment in the hulks to patronage by Joseph Banks and travels in Europe as a British spy. But Jorgenson was dogged by his own excesses, and ended up transported as a convict to the very colony he helped to found. Here he reinvented himself again as an explorer, and, despite his sympathy for the people, was caught up in the terrible Aboriginal clearances. Using unpublished sources and letters, Sarah Bakewell tells his astonishing tale with dazzling verve.

Author : Sarah Bakewell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Dane written by Sarah Bakewell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jorgen Jorgenson was a Dane who made Britain his adopted country. Restless for adventure and inspired by his hero Captain Cook, he came to London, and at twenty-three was among the small party who established a new colony - Tasmania. Amid many twists of fortune, he captained a ship for France against Britain, but then sailed with British traders to Iceland. This was his long-dreamed of moment of glory: staging an outrageous coup, for two months he ruled Iceland, proclaiming it free from Danish rule, its ancient rights restored. He was not yet thirty. Much lay ahead, including imprisonment in the hulks, patronage by Joseph Banks, and travels in Europe as a British spy. But Jorgenson was always dogged by his own excesses. Inevitably he spiralled downwards, until he was transported as a convict to Tasmania, the very colony he helped to found. Here he rose again. He bacame an explorer, cutting through the bush on desperate missions in icy mountains and across flooded rivers; and despite his sympathy for the people, he was caught up in the terrible Aboriginal clearances, described here." "Sarah Bakewell tells this tale using unpublished sources and letters. The odyssey she describes, crossing the world from island to island, illuminates the murky workings of British power while it also reveals her hero's charisma and painful self-division."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sarah Bakewell
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514262
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Live written by Sarah Bakewell and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves. This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Danes: Commentary written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : JOSEPH A. DANE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268204792
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is a Book? written by JOSEPH A. DANE and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. Part I of What Is a Book? covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book--size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies--from cataloging conventions and provenance to electronic media and their implications for the study of books. Dane begins with the central distinction between a "book-copy"--the particular, individual, physical book--and a "book"--the abstract category that organizes these copies into editions, whereby each copy is interchangeable with any other. Among other issues, Dane addresses such basic questions as: How do students, bibliographers, and collectors discuss these things? And when is it legitimate to generalize on the basis of particular examples? Dane considers each issue in terms of a practical example or question a reader might confront: How do you identify books on the basis of typography? What is the status of paper evidence? How are the various elements on the page defined? What are the implications of the images available in an online database? And, significantly, how does a scholar's personal experience with books challenge or conform to the standard language of book history and bibliography? Dane's accessible and lively tour of the field is a useful guide for all students of book history, from the beginner to the specialist.

Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876229
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 written by Dane Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth century and ends with the Second World War, at the end of which Britain was on the brink of decolonisation. The author shows how empire came to figure into almost every important development that marked Britain¿s response to the upheavals of the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. He examines its influence on foreign policy, party politics, social reforms, cultural practices, and national identity. At the same time, he shows how domestic developments affected imperial policies. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this book: integrates British and imperial history in a single narrative provides a useful synthesis of recent historical research in the area analyses topics ranging from ideology and culture to politics and foreign affairs contains a chronology, glossary, who¿s who and guide to further reading Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 provides an up-to-date, accessible survey, ideal for students coming to the subject for the first time.

Author : Helen Dyrbye
Publisher : Oval Projects
ISBN 13 : 190812024X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes written by Helen Dyrbye and published by Oval Projects. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to understanding the Danes that highlights their character and behaviour with warmth and wit.

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784080683
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Of The Danes written by Ellis Peters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Brother Cadfael: Former soldier. Benedictine monk. Amateur sleuth. The Cadfael Chronicles, by Diamond Dagger winner Ellis Peters, follow the mediaeval mysteries of one of classic crime's most unique detectives. In the April of 1144, Brother Cadfael is sent to Wales on Church business, but becomes entangled in the affairs of a young woman desperate to escape an arranged marriage.

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1356 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Dictionary of the English Language written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clemence Dane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broome Stages written by Clemence Dane and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: