Imperial Vanities - The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

Informationen zum Autor Brian Thompson was born in London and read English at Cambridge. He has written for radio and television, as well as for stage. His work of non-fiction includes ‘A Monkey Among Crocodiles’ and ‘Imperial Vanities’. He lives in Oxford and France. Brian Thompson is the most hilariously funny and innovative voice in non-fiction for ages. Klappentext 'A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson's wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché "rattling good yarn" might have been coined to describe.' RICHARD HOLMES

Product details

• Authors: Brian Thompson
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.01.2003
• EAN: 9780006532217
• ISBN: 978-0-00-653221-7
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sudan, Ukraine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Military / Naval, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, African History, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General