Books - "biography"
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Come Hell or High Water
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PUBLISHER: Pelham Books 1977
KEYWORDS: Observer Transatlantic Singlehanded Sailing Race biography travel sports
The Prodigal of the Seven Seas
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PUBLISHER: Epworth Press 1949
KEYWORDS: biography history
Mariner's Tale
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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1959
KEYWORDS: Ship captains Great Britain Biography
Gresley and Stanier: A Centenary Tribute
Imperial octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: her Majesty's Stationary Office 1976
KEYWORDS: Locomotive engineers Great Britain Biography
The Celys and Their World: An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 472pp, VG (inscription in ink to fep, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (some tanning, some creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: Cely Celys English history biography fifteenth century merchant family
The Shipping Interests of John Jones: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING MONOGRAPH no. 4
Octavo softcover (VG+), stapled wrapper; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Ship and Marine Society 2014
KEYWORDS: boats new zealand shipping history john jones biography transport trade otago dunedin south island
Charco Harbour: A Novel of Unknown Seas and a Fabled Shore Passaged with Coral Reefs and Magnetical Islands, of a Shipwreck and a Lonely Haven -- the True Story of the Last of the Great Navigators, His Bark and the Men in Her
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PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1968
KEYWORDS: captain james cook biography biographical historical fiction australian literature
Walter Nash
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PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1977
KEYWORDS: new zealand politics walter nash biography history
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
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PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2011
KEYWORDS: History Great Britain Biography Kings
My Long Trip Home
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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2011
KEYWORDS: Biography Journalists United States
Nehru: A Political Biography
Super Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1959
KEYWORDS: biography politics
G.B.S. 90: Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work
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PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1946
KEYWORDS: biography history
Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing
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PUBLISHER: World Books 1956
KEYWORDS: mountaineering travel Mount Everest biography
The Space Between the Bars
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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1968
KEYWORDS: biography music
Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: signed music biography history
Always the Outsider
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PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Lawyers New Zealand Biography law
Maurice Gee: Life and Work
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PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: biography
The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini
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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1957
KEYWORDS: italian italy middle ages history biography francesco di marco datini commerce class mobility career merchant
Newman: The Pillar of the Cloud
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PUBLISHER: MacMillan & Co. 1962
KEYWORDS: john henry newman biography english history catholic church religion christianity
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
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PUBLISHER: Virago Press 1992
KEYWORDS: memoir vera brittain winifred Holtby biography friendship british history