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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago by Roy Adkins
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women looking for love. Yet the comfortable, tranquil country that she brilliantly devised is a complete contrast to the England in ...Show more
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago by Roy Adkins
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the Englan ...Show more
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
65.00 NZD
Category: History
The period 1798 to 1815 - the Napoleonic Wars - has just about everything that you could wish for in a book on naval history - large fleet actions such as the Battle of the Nile and Copenhagen; many duels between pairs or small groups of ships, such as the Shannon and Chesapeake; combined operations lik ...Show more
Trafalgar by Roy Adkins
37.00 NZD
39.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French and Span ...Show more
Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A superbly researched, gripping account of the most important naval battle in British history, which thwarted Napoleon at sea and created a national hero in Nelson. This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of t ...Show more
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