Elizabethan England
Elizabethan England

Author: William Harrison

Publisher:

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1406857173

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Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).

The Description of England
The Description of England

Author: William Harrison

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780486282756

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Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.

Starvation Heights
Starvation Heights

Author: Gregg Olsen

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0307238393

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In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves. Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard’s accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.