Are these the best diaries covering Britain in the first half of the twentieth century? But what about those of Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson...more details Format:Hardback Pages:496
John Julius Norwich's life has reflected an appetite for living, enlivened by a sense of personal theater. Trying to Please is an engaging and amusing memoir that describes a glamorous but vanishing world. From the monasteries on Mt. Athos to a camel trek across the Sahara...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:425
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781848546097
Release Date: 12 June 2012 Our nation's story told through 100 of its most important sites - from Stonehenge to the Gherkin...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780679772699
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recounts in a style that consistently entertains." --"The New York Times Book Review " In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history of Byzantium...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781400067152
A SWEEPING CHRONICLE OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT--AND CONTROVERSIAL--INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY With the papacy embattled in recent years...more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
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Julian of Norwich;Caroline Kirvan John Myss
ISBN:9781594711510
Each book in the Thirty Days with a Great Spiritual Teacher series provides a month of daily readings from one of Christianity's most beloved spiritual guides. For each day there is a brief and accessible morning meditation drawn from the mystic's writings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:109
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9780140114492
'At last, hurray, the final volume of John Julius Norwich's magnificent history of Byzantium, which is as spellbinding as its two predecessors' – Joanna Trollope...more details
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James Hall;John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781844835119
How would it feel to stand in the Sistine Chapel as Michelangelo painted? To watch him create his breathtaking sculptures? James Hall, an art critic...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780711229211
This thoughtful collection of essays examines Croatia's cultural and artistic history, from the Roman remains on the Adriatic coast through the Gothic splendor of the Dalmatian cities to the intensive Renaissance-era artistic exchange with Italy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780753821053
Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:544
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9780141013831
A 1000-year history of the Venetian Republic from its ancient settlement to its humiliating defeat by Napoleon in 1797. Lord Norwich marshals myriad personalities...more details Format:Paperback Pages:704
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780385605250
For over thirty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers - a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends - to his friends instead of a Christmas card. Every decade...more details Format:Hardback
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780375711060
This glorious guide to England and Wales explores two of the most beautiful and culturally exciting areas ofthe world. England's rich history of Romans...more details Format:Paperback Pages:560
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780701176082
This is a vast subject - vast in time (from the oldest surviving pyramid which dates from 2686 BC to the Great War of 1914-18); vast in geography (from Gibraltar to Jerusalem); vast in culture...more details Format:Hardback Pages:688
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781844133086
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:688
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John Bishop of Norwich Sheepshanks
ISBN:9781176372658
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:196
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John Leng (Bp of Norwich )
ISBN:9781173630805
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:498
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9780140297171
The city of Venice through the eyes of nineteenth century visitors. For this portrait of Venice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Lord Norwich has abandoned the historical approach...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Looking up from the end point of Norwich's history of Venice, this book looks at Venice's many distinguished vistors. Luminaries such as Lord Byron...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Of Norwich Robinson John
ISBN:9781113354389
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:28
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780743200318
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9780140249132
"The War of the Roses", the "Battle of Bosworth", and the "Princes in the Tower"; the century and a half covered by Shakespeare's history plays - from the recently authenticated "Edward III" and "Richard III" -is so full of incident that dramatic licence might seem unnecessary. But as this survey of the period shows...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
This text presents a narrative of a nation's history as portrayed by William Shakespeare. John Julis Norwich tells the story of what really happened in the century and a half between 1337 and 1485 by examining the history plays...more details Format:Hardback Pages:496
John Julius Norwich brings together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantium empire....more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9780670893928
This work comprises 10 pamphlets published or given to friends by Lord Norwich at Christmas. Contributors as diverse as Charles Dodgson and Freya Stark...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780571260447
When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. This title tells the story of the Kingdom...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:474
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781409002789
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents...more details Format:Electronic book text
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781400034284
This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean...more details Format:Paperback Pages:667
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780099565871
Examines the Popes, an oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally - but by no means historically - the first Pope) to the present...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780701182908
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:505
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NORWICH JOHN JULIUS
ISBN:9781841195315
Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it...', whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly...Propped on its long row of thick-legged columns...more details Format:Paperback
This new series offers anthologies of the observations of the citizens and of illustrious travellers such as Byron, Goethe, Ruskin, Casanova and Robert Browing to recreate past times in some of the world's most glorious cities. Edited by recognized experts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:395
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9780385410281
A delightful spoof of the old favourite carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly...more details Format:Hardback
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Norwich John Julius
ISBN:9781848877085
The classic Christmas carol, told with a very special twist... With inimitable illustrations by Quentin Blake; elegant and enchanting....more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781452604220
From author John Julius Norwich comes the astonishing story of the papacy, capturing nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal....more details Format:CD
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781452634227
From author John Julius Norwich comes the astonishing story of the papacy, capturing nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal....more details Format:CD
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781452654225
From author John Julius Norwich comes the astonishing story of the papacy, capturing nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal....more details Format:CD
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John Julius Norwich
ISBN:9781844567386
For over thirty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends to his friends instead of a Christmas card...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:1