Biography & Autobiography
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Farmer's Boy [Paperback]
John Robertson Allan(Author); Douglas Percy Bliss(Illustrator)
$13.95ISBN: 9781912476718
Published by : Origin
Imagine eleven fields grouped around the houses, one hundred and eighty-six gently brae-set acres, sloping away to the south and west. And then imagine woods and fields stretching far and far along the valley into the blue mists of a summer aftern... .... Learn More -
The Hired Lad [Paperback]
Ian Campbell Thomson(Author)
$13.95ISBN: 9781912476701
Published by : Origin
Ian Campbell Thomson relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. It is a touching coming-of-age tale as the author makes new friends and experiences romance while finding his own way in an ever-changi... .... Learn More -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals [Hardback]
Norman H. Reid(Author)
$80.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781910900222
Published by : John Donald
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019
Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexp... .... Learn More -
The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58 [Paperback]
Duncan Williamson(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476404
Published by : Origin
Duncan Williamson was the son, grandson and great grandson of nomadic tinsmiths, basket makers, pipers and storytellers. In this book, he describes his life as a traveller with verve, candour and intimacy, recounting a childhood spent on the shore... .... Learn More -
The Long Horizon [Paperback]
Iain R. Thomson(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476572
Published by : Origin
The Long Horizon is an extraordinary book. Much more than simply the chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands, it is also a wonderful collection of stories, both factual and fictional, which reflect the changes that have revolut... .... Learn More -
Island Going [Paperback]
Robert Atkinson(Author); Hamish Haswell-Smith(Introduction)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476428
Published by : Origin
In July 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Their quest was to last for twelve years and took them from their Oxford base to many of the remote and often deserted isla... .... Learn More -
Sigmund Freud und sein Buch, Der Mann Moses: Eine kritische Würdigung aus ägyptologischer und anthropologischer Sicht [Paperback]
Rolf Krauss(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781906137649
Published by : Golden House Publications
Series: Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie
Volume: 22
Freud’s study about Moses and monotheistic religion combined Egyptology and anthropology in a critical analysis of the biblical faith. This book reviews the Egyptological and anthropological bases of Freud’s arguments. There is also a ... .... Learn More -
Fernando Pessoa: A Quasi Memoir [Paperback]
José Paulo Cavalcanti(Author)
$32.00ISBN: 9788869771811
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to Pessoa, only by... .... Learn More -
Jay: European Connections of a Bronze Age Scholar [Hardback]
H. Steegstra()
$20.00ISBN: 9789492444578
Published by : Barkhuis
The archaeologist and Bronze Age metal specialist Dr Jay J. Butler (1921-2014) was a kind, warmhearted man, averse to hype and ostentation, who was happy to share his knowledge in non-academic language both with professionals and interested amateu... .... Learn More -
Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul [Hardback]
John Freely(Author); Andrew Finkel(Introduction); Maureen Freely(Other); Ara Güler(Illustrator)
$22.95ISBN: 9780956594884
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveler John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post te... .... Learn More