Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations
Autor Charles Nichollen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 dec 2012
From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, Nicholl's twenty-five fascinating essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these wonderful historical traces.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140296822
ISBN-10: 0140296824
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140296824
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Charles
Nicholl
is
a
historian,
biographer
and
travel
writer.
His
books
includeThe
Reckoning(winner
of
the
James
Tait
Black
prize
for
biography
and
the
Crime
Writers'
Association
'Gold
Dagger'
award
for
non-fiction),Somebody
Else:
Arthur
Rimbaud
in
Africa(winner
of
the
Hawthornden
Prize)
and
the
acclaimed
biography,Leonardo
da
Vinci:
The
Flights
of
the
Mind,
which
has
been
published
in
seventeen
languages.
His
most
recent
book
isThe
Lodger:
Shakespeare
on
Silver
Street,
which
was
nominated
as
'Book
of
the
Year'
twelve
times
in
2007.
He
is
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature
and
has
lectured
in
Britain,
Italy
and
the
United
States.
Recenzii
[Nicholls
is]
a
peerless
historical
sleuth.
At
once
a
biographer,
an
explorer
and
an
investigator,
he
captures
the
past
and
its
people
in
lightning-flashes
of
illumination.
In
Nicholl's
hands,
the
driest
document
can
rise
from
the
past
and
shine.
Let's
hope
for
many
more
scintillating
revelations
from
this
magician
of
lost
lives
History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. InTraces Remain,Charles Nicholl transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles
History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. InTraces Remain,Charles Nicholl transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles