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Way of the Gladiator
Inspiration for the Gladiator Films
Häftad, 2024
250 kr
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The book that inspired the stories of Gladiator & Gladiator II : Step into the ring with this classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans’ obsession with the bloody and brutal games. “[ The Way of the Gladiator is] this crazy, tawdry, wild book about the Coliseum. . . . It hardwired in my brain …
Way of the Gladiator
Inspiration for the Gladiator Films
E-bok, 2024
221 kr
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The book that inspired the stories of Gladiator & Gladiator II: Step into the ring with this classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans'' obsession with the bloody and brutal games."[The Way of the Gladiator is] this crazy, tawdry, wild book about the Coliseum. . . . It hardwired in my brain …
Those About to Die
E-bok, 2024
221 kr
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The basis for the new Peacock television series: The classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans'' obsession with the bloody and brutal gladiatorial games."If you can imagine a superior American sports writer suddenly being transported back in time to cover the ancient Roman games, you will …
History of Torture
E-bok, 2025
142 kr
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The author of The Way of the Gladiator continues his exploration of the dark side of history with this grisly account of pain and punishment through the ages.Human beings have a deep-seated instinct for cruelty, and, so far, have not evolved much past it. History is rife with examples of the …
Hellfire Club
The Rise and Fall of a Shocking Secret Society
E-bok, 2025
44 kr
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The author of The Way of the Gladiator turns from the arenas of ancient Rome to the center of debauchery and impiety in eighteenth-century England."Stranger, refuse, if you can, what we have to offer." These words, engraved in Latin, welcomed visitors to a rebuilt medieval abbey on the banks of the …
Sporting Chance
Unusual Methods of Hunting
E-bok, 2025
227 kr
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The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator shares his experiences hunting with strange devices—and animals—in this classic book.Falcons, boomerangs, spears. . . In the mid-twentieth century, hunters of all shapes and sizes were in favor of giving their quarry a fighting chance. A revival …
Wolves of Paris
A Novel
E-bok, 2025
235 kr
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The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in this novel based on real events.Praised as "nature writing at its best," The Wolves of Paris takes readers to fifteenth-century France, a country so decimated by the Hundred …
Killers
The Tale of a Fighting Cock and a Wild Hawk
E-bok, 2025
235 kr
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A showdown ensues between a bird of prey and a barnyard rooster in this masterpiece of nature fiction from the author of The Fox and the Hound.Whitehackle comes from a long line of fighting cocks, but exceeds expectations as he rises to the top of the pecking order. His reputation grows when he …
All Creatures Great and Small
E-bok, 2025
197 kr
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From the adventurer and author of The Fox and the Hound, "a memoir of his travels as a photo-journalist specialising in animal stories" (The Telegraph).His historical work Those About to Die inspired the Gladiator movies. His novel, The Fox and the Hound, became a timeless classic—and a Disney …
Fox and the Hound
A Novel
E-bok, 2025
47 kr
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This classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is "a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books" (Omaha World-Herald).Winner of the Dutton Animal Book AwardWinner of the Athenaeum Literary AwardReader''s Digest Book ClubTwo animals on opposites sides of the …
Black Cargoes
A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865
Av Malcolm Cowley, Daniel P. Mannix
E-bok, 2025
146 kr
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"A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 ½ centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World." —TimeIn 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with the landing in the West Indies of the first enslaved people …
Black Cargoes
A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865
Av Daniel P Mannix, Malcolm Cowley
Häftad, 2025
314 kr
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