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“john prebble”

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  • Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind

    Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn

    by John Prebble, Bruce Weber ...
    Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers focusing on metabolism, as well as historians of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The High Girders

    The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy

    by John Prebble ...
    'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone on board...This is the true story of that disastrous night, told from multiple viewpoints:The station master waiting for the train to arrive - ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The High Girders

    The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy

    by John Prebble ...
    Narrated by David Monteath ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone on board...This is the true story of that disastrous night, told from multiple viewpoints:The station master waiting for the train to arrive - ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Discovering Yorkshire's History

    A Guide to Places and People

    by Len Markham ...
    Over the centuries Yorkshire, the largest and most varied country in England, has helped to shape the history of the nation. From the barrier of the Pennines in the west to the bastion of Falmborough in the east, the region has seen war, insurrection, invention, industrial expansion, political and social development and pioneering achievements in literature, art and science. In this unconventional ... Read more

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  • Three Men in a Boat

    by Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy Lewis ...
    A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics.Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the ... Read more

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  • The Lighthouse Stevensons

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  • The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897

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    This ebook has been optimised for viewing on colour devices. Between the ages of 15 and 30 Beatrix Potter kept a secret diary written in code. When the code was cracked by Leslie Linder more than 20 years after her death, the diary revealed a remarkable picture of upper middle-class life in late Victorian Britain. This book provides an illuminating insight into the personality and inspiration of ... Read more

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  • Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

    by Jerome K. Jerome ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's ... Read more

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  • Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters

    Crime in 19th Century, Aberdeen and the North East

    by Malcolm Archibald ...
    Hugging the coast and crammed between two rivers, Aberdeen grew up isolated from Scotland's other urban centres. Yet Aberdeen experienced its share of crime in the 19th century. The city was plagued by a plethora of prostitutes, ravaged by riots and aggravated by assaults. There were streets such as Shuttle Lane which respectable people were well advised not to enter; a military garrison that ... Read more

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  • The Mill for Grinding Old People Young

    by Glenn Patterson ...
    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an increase in commerce and the rapid swell of the population as workers flocked to the newly created jobs. Gilbert, a young man with prospects, begins work with the ... Read more

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  • A Sink of Atrocity

    Crime in 19th Century Dundee

    by Malcolm Archibald ...
    Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place. For many of its citizens, it was the survival of the fittest, and to survive they turned to crime. But what was it really like both for the criminals and the law-abiding citizens to live in the streets and closes of Dundee at that time? A Sink of Atrocity reveals the real Dundee of the nineteenth century and the ordinary and extraordinary ... Read more

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