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Hardback. From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This work comprises a single manuscript notebook of nearly five hundred pages that Thoreau filled between March 9 and August 18, 1853. Editor(s): Rossi, William; Thomas, Heather Kirk. Num Pages: 480 pages, 38 line illus., 4 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691065373
ISBN
9780691065373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.33
€ 100.30

Hardcover. A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback wrote regularly to her eldest son John and his wife Mary. Her letters offer an articulate, detailed commentary on life in California by a gentlewoman managing a household and finding her place in a new world Editor(s): Klippert, Zoe. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JH; BGL; BJ; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Bodleian Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243440
ISBN
9781851243440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.99
€ 24.27

Hardback. This volume contains the letters written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is the sixth volume in a series exploring "The Irish in the Civil War". Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823218127
ISBN
9780823218127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.69

Paperback. Consists of journals, primarily by Clark, which cover the expedition's route up the Missouri River to Fort Mandan in present-day North Dakota and its frigid winter encampment there. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; BG; BJ; GBCS; HBJK; HBLL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 749.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
new edition
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280106
ISBN
9780803280106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to "Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele", the idea of Mphahlele's death was remote and poetic. That death has now come and we mourn it. This volume offers an account of Mphahlele's rich and varied life. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868144891
ISBN
9781868144891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.23

paperback. Aims to catch the imagination of a public besieged by hack journalism. This title includes writings that are a blend of public and private, news and recollection, reality and description. It traces the development of the author's career as a journalist and examines his fusion of real events with flights of fancy. Editor(s): Pascoe, David. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435801
ISBN
9780140435801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 14.67

Paperback. Private Joseph Whitehouse produced an account that stands as the only surviving record by any army private in the Corps of Discovery expedition. This is Whitehouse's journal including entries from a second copy of his journal which extends the narrative for five months beyond previous editions. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 459 pages, map. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
459
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280236
ISBN
9780803280236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas-and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co. London
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393309287
ISBN
9780393309287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.84

Hardcover. With volume 24 of the Revolutionary War Series, the conflict enters a new decade. New Year's Day 1780 finds Washington in winter quarters at Morristown, N.J., having established his headquarters at the Ford mansion there one month earlier. During the weeks covered by this volume, the Continental army experienced the harshest winter of the war. Editor(s): Huggins, Benjamin L. Series: Revolutionary War Series. Num Pages: 792 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BJ; HBLL; HBW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1247.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813937823
ISBN
9780813937823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.73

hardcover. The fourth of six volumes collecting the letters of Matthew Arnold. The letters chronicle Arnold's personal life in the characteristically intimate note of all his correspondence. He loses a son, a brother and his mother, and travels to France, Switzerland and Italy, recording his impressions. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1039.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918969
ISBN
9780813918969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.87

Paperback. Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica during a critical period of the Napoleonic Wars. Her personal diary conveys impressions of life among the slave-owning colonial gentry. The journal was first published in 1907. Editor(s): Wright, Philip. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9789766401283
ISBN
9789766401283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99

Paperback. First title from new inspirational stories series Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; VFJJ; YXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9781849013239
ISBN
9781849013239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Hardback. Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T S Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot. This book offers a vivid and personal documentation of T S Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571316342
ISBN
9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 30.50

Hardback. Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed. Series: Mark Twain Papers. Num Pages: 957 pages, 51 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
957
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237728
ISBN
9780520237728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.74
€ 91.86

Hardback. Editor(s): Eberle, Henrik. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648736
ISBN
9780745648736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.12

Hardback. Editor(s): Jeffares, A. Norman; Bridgwater, Christina; White, Anna MacBride. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403921345
ISBN
9781403921345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.12

Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Robert A. Series: Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Num Pages: illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 182 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300007121
ISBN
9780300007121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.96
€ 66.57

Paperback. Tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. This title explains the libertarian, critical spirit of the early eighteenth century. Translator(s): Betts, C. J. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; BG; BJ; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442816
ISBN
9780140442816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.02

Hardback. Series: War and Society in North America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBWS2; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821422229
ISBN
9780821422229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.87

Paperback. In this account of the earliest days of settlement in the West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strange new land. Editor(s): Wallace, William; Coates, Ken; Morrison, Bill. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Regina Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889774087
ISBN
9780889774087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910777305
ISBN
9781910777305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.22

Hardcover. Edited and introduced by a leading historian of the Progressive Era, these 113 letters all but a few never before published represent a rare glimpse into the mind of a chief executive speaking candidly about individuals and issues. Opens a new window on Washington early in the twentieth century and on a presidency that was changing with the times." Editor(s): Gould, Lewis L. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; BJ; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 673.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700618002
ISBN
9780700618002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Hamowy, Ronald. Num Pages: 1064 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 65. Weight in Grams: 1618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Edition
New Edition
Number of pages
1064
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865971295
ISBN
9780865971295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.08

Paperback. Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover Editor(s): Lockridge, Kenneth A. Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JD; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469615233
ISBN
9781469615233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.91

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