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Excerpt from Doyle's New Instruction Book on Ocean Bathing, Swimming, and BoatingI might not have been living today to tell the story if I did not know how to use the ocean. It was through a frightful and timely lesson I learned in August, 1887, and I will never forget it if I live ninety-nine years. It was only a few weeks after I had performed one of the greatest rescues on the Atlantic coast.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hund...

The Official Baronage of England - Vol. 3 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

The Official Baronage of England - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks...

This comprehensive, authoritative book traces the turbulent history of France from the 1774 accession of Louis XVI, through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, to the final triumph of Napoleon in 1802. This third edition incorporates the results of twenty-first century research, and offers an up-to-date guide to further reading.

Excerpt from A Year's Thoughts: Collected From the Writings of William Doyle In deference to the request of numerous readers of the life of Father William Doyle, this little book of extracts has been compiled from his letters, diaries and retreat notes. It has seemed most helpful to arrange them as a series of daily thoughts. A short title has been placed before most of the extracts. Also a brief index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books p...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Excerpt from Some Account of the British Dominions Beyond the Atlantic: Containing Chiefly What Is Most Interesting and Least Known With Respect to Those Parts, Particularly the Important Question About the North West Passage Is Satisfactorily Discussed, With a Large Map in Which the Said Supposed Passage But as the Englifh do now and then talk of reviving their claim to New Albion, on the North of California, difcovered by their coun tryman,...

Una famiglia aristocratica ingaggia il detective per recuperare alcune lettere compromettenti in possesso di Alice Faulkner, una giovane che, con quei documenti, avrebbe potuto vendicare la sorella, ingannata da un nobile e condotta alla morte. Alice, a sua volta, è stata raggirata da una coppia di truffatori e tenuta prigioniera in casa dove viene continuamente maltrattata perché continua a tenere segreto il nascondiglio dei documenti. A ques...

Describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility to nobles, the steps by which revolutionaries turned against aristocracy, the impact of persecution, emigration, confiscation, and Terror, and the long-term consequences of these developments for the nobility.

The concluding volume in the Short Oxford History of France series captures the essence of the huge transformations that have taken place in France since the late nineteenth century. In a set of thematic chapters drawing on recent research, a leading international team of historians has produced a genuine re-evaluation of modern French history.

This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first half of the thirteenth century, through the Hundred Years War, to the beginnings of the Italian wars in the 1490s.

An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien R¿me Europe

This survey of European history covers a period of one and a half centuries which witnessed the beginnings of the contemporary world. In his account of the economic, social, intellectual, and governmental structure and development of pre-revolutionary Europe, Doyle stresses throughout theimportance of economic and social trends, and places emphasis on the analysis of the structure of society as well as the narration of events. He shows how the...

Excerpt from The Universal Prayer: To Which Is Added, the Form of Anointing the Sick, as Prescribed in King Edward the Vith's, and Queen Elizabeth's First Common Prayer Books Paraphrafe) to the who raga retain the Ufggc of the Roman W0 i1), and alfo of thofo who hav'c re. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an impor...

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Blackstone presents the first audio recordings ever of the only two Sherlock Holmes plays written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and The Speckled Band, recorded together with a new creation, Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detectives Flat, in this award-winning production.

From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating - and widely-studied - periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William Doyle provides a new perspective on several key themes within the history of this period - from the world of the Ancien Regime to the Battle of Water...

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The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy’s path to powerIn the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy’s motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American sailors instantly. The sea erupted in flames as the 109’s s...