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37 produkter
Voyage For Madmen
Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ...
Häftad, 2011
184 kr
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Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th AnniversaryIt lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race …
Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle
Häftad, 2016
257 kr
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Evolution's Captain
The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin''s Voyage Aboard the "Beagle"
E-bok, 2009
103 kr
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The story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer and the events without which the name Charles Darwin would be unknown to us today.Captain Robert FitzRoy''s first voyage aboard the HMS Beagle had concluded with the kidnapping of four "savages" from Tierra del Fuego. But when his …
Voyage For Madmen
E-bok, 2009
113 kr
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In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn …
Oil and Ice
A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty
Häftad, 2010
316 kr
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Piece Of My Mind
Häftad, 1987
219 kr
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A Piece of My Mind "transforms a self-confessed case of writer's block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy" (Charles Spencer, London Daily News) "The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight from the heart. They …
Nichols Plays: 1
Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not Lane
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author's experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award; The National Health was commissioned by Kenneth Tynan for …
Nichols Plays: 2
Chez Nous; Privates on Parade; Born in the Gardens; Passion Play; Poppy
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday to …
File On Nichols
Peter Nichols
Häftad, 1993
301 kr
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"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times). Among Nichols' most important plays are A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, …
Blue Murder
Häftad, 1996
219 kr
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"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph) Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury and the drinks are laced with cyanide. As the son of the household struggles to write his first play, a murder story …
Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Häftad, 2001
139 kr
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'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...'Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've seen; concerns about whether it's dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It's in the collisions between pious and …
Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Häftad, 1968
223 kr
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Bri, a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year old spastic child named Josephine, who is completely helpless and utterly dependent. Bri hides behind irony and sarcasm. Sheila believes the child is her penance for a promiscuous past and soldiers on devotedly with their little "Joe Egg". …
Forget-me-not Lane
Häftad, 1972
223 kr
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Forget-me-not Lane' is a bittersweet play about fathers, families and nostalgia - about (in Nichol's words) a youth which was bitter to live through but sweet to remember. It was first performed in 1971 at the Greenwich Theatre, London.4 women, 5 men
Piece of My Mind
Häftad, 1988
223 kr
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Ted Forrest is a playwright with a problem -- writer's block. When we first meet him -- bitter, disillusioned and consumed with envy of Miles Whittier, a younger, more successful playwright -- he has retreated to the country in an attempt to stimulate his creative impotence by writing an …
Poppy
Häftad, 1991
223 kr
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Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a …
Born in the Gardens
Häftad, 1980
223 kr
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In a mock Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70 year old Maud and her younger son, forty five year old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums. An attempt to destroy this happy way of life is made on the occasion of the father's funeral by …
Lingua Franca
Häftad, 2010
223 kr
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M3 F4. A classroom. Mid 1950s. Based around a leading character in Peter Nichols' acclaimed work, "Privates on Parade", and inspired by his own experiences, "Lingua Franca" is a fast-paced, sexually-charged story that plays with notions of xenophobia and cultural stereotypes to comic effect. It's …
Privates on Parade
Häftad, 1977
223 kr
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Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya.1 woman, 10 men
Oil and Ice
A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America''s Last Whaling Dynasty
E-bok, 2010
113 kr
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"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America''s last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the …
Granite Harbor
A Novel
Inbunden, 2024
361 kr
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"[A] finely written and thrilling tour de force." Wall Street Journal A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on?quiet and serene?for decades. That …
File On Nichols
Peter Nichols
E-bok, 1993
323 kr
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"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols'' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times). Among Nichols'' most important plays are A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, …
File On Nichols
Peter Nichols
E-bok, 2014
313 kr
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"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols'' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times). Among Nichols'' most important plays are A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, …
Piece Of My Mind
E-bok, 2014
233 kr
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A Piece of My Mind "transforms a self-confessed case of writer''s block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy" (Charles Spencer, London Daily News) "The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight from the heart. They …
Nichols Plays: 2
Chez Nous; Privates on Parade; Born in the Gardens; Passion Play; Poppy
E-bok, 2014
412 kr
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A rich selection from the best of Nichols'' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday …
Piece Of My Mind
E-bok, 2014
226 kr
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A Piece of My Mind "transforms a self-confessed case of writer''s block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy" (Charles Spencer, London Daily News) "The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight from the heart. They …
Nichols Plays: 2
Chez Nous; Privates on Parade; Born in the Gardens; Passion Play; Poppy
E-bok, 2014
412 kr
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A rich selection from the best of Nichols'' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday …
Blue Murder
E-bok, 2014
233 kr
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"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph) Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury and the drinks are laced with cyanide. As the son of the household struggles to write his first play, a murder story …
Blue Murder
E-bok, 2014
228 kr
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"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph) Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury and the drinks are laced with cyanide. As the son of the household struggles to write his first play, a murder story …
