John Aubrey
John Aubrey

Author: Ruth Scurr

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1448190878

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'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography. With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey's own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other. 'A game-changer in the world of biography' Mary Beard 'Ingenious' Hilary Mantel 'Irresistible' Philip Pullman

MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY FRS EMBR
MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY FRS EMBR

Author: John 1771-1857 Britton

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-28

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781372991530

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Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works; With Extracts From His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times...
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works; With Extracts From His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times...

Author: John 1771-1857 Britton

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781014834362

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Surgeon's Mate
The Surgeon's Mate

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780393037074

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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones

Author: Evan Thomas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1451603991

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The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.

Aubrey McKee
Aubrey McKee

Author: Alex Pugsley

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1771963123

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I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. “People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.” From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.

Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works; With Extracts From His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times...
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works; With Extracts From His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times...

Author: John 1771-1857 Britton

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781013715563

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Fatal Purity
Fatal Purity

Author: Ruth Scurr

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-17

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780805082616

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Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.