Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: November 2008 Pages: 512 in Publisher: Pimlico Edward Burra never followed the fashion: in the thirties. when modern art was dominated by abstraction and landscape. he painted people; in the sixties. when landscape was completely out of fashion. he started to find it interesting. His life was an unusual one: profoundly disabled. he lived with his parents. and was in constant pain. Only when he was painting could he forget his body. At the same time he was a man with a rich and full life. He was a letter-writer of genius. writing every afternoon to a wide circle of friends. His letters are camp. witty. full of the energy and delight in life which he could not express physically. Inventive. entertaining. and extraordinarily original. his writing expresses a man who combined profound personal loyalty with distaste for any kind of emotional ...

EDWARD BURRA

Arts & Photography

Jane Stevenson

History & Criticism

Pimlico

Amelia Edwards was born in London in 1831, the daughter of an army officer. This book describes a 1000 mile journey up the Nile she undertook in 1873. Although the trip was initially undertaken to escape the rain in Europe, Edwards was no vacuous tourist; her lively account of Ancient Egypt's great antiquities made this book a bestseller of its day. Following this journey, Amelia Edwards went on to become one of Britain's leading Egyptologists and to endow the country's first chair in the subject, at University College, London.

A thousand miles up the Nile (Traveller's)

Edwards, Amelia B.

Literature & Fiction

Holy Russia: An Historical Companiion to European Russia

MacLean, F.

Churchill's personal account, based on his own experiences, of the Boer War of 1899-1902.

The Boer War

History

CHURCHILL, Winston

Africa

<p>William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca, where he lived from the age of five in the household of his father, the poet Robert Graves. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his Muses and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.</p>

Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves

Biographies & Memoirs

Graves, William

Arts & Literature

Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920 (Pimlico (Series))

White, Jerry

Europe

When Men and Mountains Meet: Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-75 (Traveller's)

JOHN KEAY

Historian Edward Gibbons said: “Europe dates a new era from Charlemagne’s restoration of the Western Empire. Now, leading biographer Derek Wilson has written a major life of the man who was the bridge between the ancient world and the world of the emerging and powerful Europe.This Frankish chieftain was born in 742, son of Pepin the Short. Charlemagne, while repeating the military exploits of Julius Caesar, possessed a mind ignorant of classical culture. He ruled with the sagacity of a Marcus Aurelius, but the general who could order the summary dispatch of 4,500 was equally reminiscent of Caligula.Even so, his activities were not confined to warfare. He introduced jury courts, revised the legal system, introduced new coinage, reformed weights and measures, and furthered missionary enterprises and monastic reform. He even began a German grammar and promised religious instruction in the vernacular.Charlemagne lives on as dramatically in legend, particularly in the Chanson de Bland, and his quarter century of imperial splendour is a truly incredible adventure story.From the Hardcover edition.

Charlemagne: Barbarian & Emperor

WILSON, DEREK

Historical

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.  This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (Century Seafarers Series)

Annie Brassey

Good Morning and Good Night (Traveller's)

Margaret of Sarawak,Ranee

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