books about: englishman

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It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks

John Mole

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006

Amusing, absorbing, and just plain funny
If you enjoyed Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan, and A Year In Provence, you won't be disappointed with It's All Greek to Me! You'll love it. All three books have the same ingredient, which makes them so enjoyable: humor. The sub-title: A Tale of a Mad Dog ...

The Englishman's Boy: A Novel

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Picador, 1998

Why you should go to Canada
When I occasionally get to Canada, I always search out the bookstores, as you can find great Canadian novels like this one that are practically unknown in the US. The characters and storylines in this novel ring historically true and are at the same time unique. The ...

The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I

Ben Macintyre

Delta, 2003

History at ground level
This is a wonderfully written book on several levels. To begin with, and perhaps most importantly, Macintyre is a terrific writer, researcher, and storyteller. This is not a dry history about names and dates, but rather about relationships and the misfortune of ...

A Piano in the Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains

Tony Hawks

Ebury Press, 2007

Hawks reaches his peak
I've always found Tony Hawks books enjoyable. Funny books but I've always felt they were a little contrived - a little too forced. (Danny Wallace take note) In 'A Piano in the Pyrenees' I thought this would be another fun but laboured idea. Not so! This is a new ...

The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar

Frances Welch

Short Books, 2003

A Pleasant Little Biography
Sydney Gibbes would have been unknown to all except his own family had he not taken the momentous step of going to Russia in the early 1900s. There he sought out work as tutor to the children of various noble families, with indifferent results and gaining a reputation ...

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

Anatoly Fomenko

Mithec, 2004

Pants on fire?
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely ...

Death of an Englishman: A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation

Magdalen Nabb

Soho Crime, 2001

Forza Firenze
The re-release of Magdalene Nabb's Florentine stories is long overdue ( and shame on her UK publisher for dropping her ). Congratulations are due to SoHo Press for their continuing ressucitation of some of the finest crime writers ( Van Der Wetterring , Tokagi and ...

God Is an Englishman

R. F. Delderfield

Da Capo Press, 2006

One of the best family sagas
Adam Swann has followed his family's tradition of military service for long enough to turn 30. He's seen a lot during those years, including a horrific massacre of civilians. When chance places a fortune in rubies in his hands, he's more than ready to make drastic ...

The Englishman's Greek Concordance of New Testament: Coded with Strong's Concordance Numbers

George V. Wigram

Hendrickson Publishers, 1996

Excellent Study Tool
This book is a great way to determine what a greek word actually means. It is the reverse of the strongs concordance(Greek to english rather than english to greek). Simply look in Strong's concordance for a word and look at the Strong's number then take this study tool ...

The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of Old Testament: Coded with Strong's Concordance Numbers

George V. Wigram

Hendrickson Publishers, 1996

An Excellent Offering
The reviews had me expecting an inferior quality reference work, but I found it to be perfectly printed and bound. The copy I received was the sixth printing, of April 2006. The scholarship (though finished nearly 175 years ago) is excellent, thorough and easy to ...

Don't Kill the Cow Too Quick: An Englishman?s Adventures Homesteading in Panama

Malcolm Henderson

iUniverse, Inc., 2004

A psychologist's perspective
I have just finished reading, for the second time, Malcolm Henderson's enchanting tour of a marvelous part of the world and his introduction to some wonderful people. Mr. Henderson has what other writers wish they had, the innate gift of being able to tell a story. ...

HEART OF DARKNESS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]

Classics-Unbound, 2008

"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important ...

Meeting the Medicine Men: An Englishman's Travels Among the Navajo

Charles Langley

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008

fascinating though controversial
Langley, a jaded newspaper editor from London, travels to the American Southwest and gradually is allowed to become an apprentice to Blue Horse, a Navajo Medicine Man. In his book, he recounts Blue Horse's skill at "de-witching" and removing curses from individuals and ...

The Heart of Darkness

MacMay, 2008

"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important ...

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium : An Englishman's World

Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger

Little Brown and Company, 1999

The Year 1000
Gift for a grandson who is a medieval history buff. Looking through it, it interestingly displays life as it was lived in medieval England, and I am sure he is going to love it.