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17 produkter
India
A Portrait
Häftad, 2012
160 kr
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Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless …
India
A Portrait
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of clichés: 'hi-tech', 'materialistic', 'go-getting'. But what is the real nature …
Tibet, Tibet
A Personal History of a Lost Land
E-bok, 2011
136 kr
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Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a mystical mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Patrick French set out to discover the truth, and his extraordinary account has been widely acclaimed.Travelling through the country, French meets exiled …
Younghusband
The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers. Patrick French's award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the 'damned rum name', …
Tibet, Tibet
A Personal History of a Lost Land
Häftad, 2011
171 kr
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From the author of India: A Portrait, Patrick French's Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time.Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of …
Liberty or Death
India's Journey to Independence and Division
Häftad, 2011
171 kr
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Liberty or Death is Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India, acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject.At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass …
Liberty or Death
India's Journey to Independence and Division
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end. Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the …
World Is What It Is
E-bok, 2008
173 kr
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The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French …
World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2009
180 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
207 kr
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This is the first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most compelling literary figures of the last fifty years.With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a …
Tel Quel Reader
Av Patrick French, Roland-Francois Lack
Häftad, 1998
744 kr
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The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on the formation of literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 70s. Its legacy has had enormous influence on the parameters of such debate today. From its beginning in 1960 to its …
Notes from the Dream House
Selected Film Reviews 1963–2013
Av Philip French, Karl French m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
232 kr
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Notes from the Dream House is a `best of’ selection of reviews by the celebrated Observer film critic Philip French. Spanning half the history of cinema, his reviews cover a great variety of films, from westerns and gangsters to art movies and musicals – the hits and the misses, the good, the bad …
