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Great Tales from English History

Great Tales from English History

by Robert Lacey

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Not content with a march of facts, Lacey instead brings history to life through a series of instructive, entertaining profiles of personalties, well-known and obscure, including industrial pioneer Jethro Tull, anti-slavery crusader Thomas Clarkson, and the feminist prototype Mary Wollstonecraft, Captains Cook and Bligh, mad King George III, Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin. History as it should be. This is the thrid in a bestselling series  (GBR689, $17.99)


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