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By: Ruth Scurr
ISBN: 9781784704032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: John Stauffer
ISBN: 9781598533514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780099595847
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorant; and ultimately, his fight for his right to freedom.
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By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780525563006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780451529947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.
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By: Diana Souhami
ISBN: 9781780878829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The lives and loves of two of the last century's most dazzling and wild women.
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By: Gavin Lambert
ISBN: 9780571221981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An intimate portrait of a beguiling but tragic star.
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By: Richard J. Gwyn
ISBN: 9780307356451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Random House Canada
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By: Czeslaw Milosz
ISBN: 9780141392288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.
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By: Ginger Zee
ISBN: 9781368076517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Hyperion
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Includes excerpt from the author's A little closer to home.
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By: John Clayton
ISBN: 9781643136097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A dynamic examination that traces the lives of two of the most influential figuresand their dueling approacheson America's natural landscape.
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By: Richard Mabey
ISBN: 9780099531821
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 19th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times
Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.
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By: Jenny Uglow
ISBN: 9780571223756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A lavishly produced biography of the man whose wildlife illustrations shaped the way we view the natural world.
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By: Patrick Dean
ISBN: 9781639364138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesbywho predated John JamesAudubonby nearly a centuryand his influence on how we understand American wildlife.
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By: Colin Grant
ISBN: 9780099501459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. This title chronicles Garvey's life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives and the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely, tragic death.
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By: Patricia Malcolmson
ISBN: 9781846680748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Picking up where bestseller Nella Last's War left off.
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By: Christina Scott
ISBN: 9780233006192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Nelson Mandela's incredible story encompasses seismic political change in South Africa as well as extraordinary personal struggle, trauma and triumph.
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By: Richard Stengel
ISBN: 9780753519349
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Presents powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013), whose fight against apartheid in South Africa has become an enduring example of resistance against injustice and oppression.
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By: Dr John Sugden
ISBN: 9781845951917
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Nelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style.
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By: Dr John Sugden
ISBN: 9781847922762
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with an array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. This title features Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar as well as his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns.
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By: Peter Evans
ISBN: 9780060580544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Explores the feud between Aristotle Onassis and the Kennedy family, documenting Robert Kennedy's role in barring Onassis from US trade and the shipping magnate's early relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy.
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By: Gwen Trammell McMath
ISBN: 9781098327972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Mark Eisner
ISBN: 9780062694218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal lifeforming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.
The fascinating events of Nerudas life are interspersed with Eisners thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Nerudas life and times.
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By: Gil Troy
ISBN: 9781541742444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging.
