A VIVID PICTURE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE IN THIS AGE. ;
 THE LIVES OF A WRITER, A PEASANT, A FINANCIER AND AN ADVENTURER

Tudor Portraits: Success and Failure of an Age

FOSS, Michael

Barnes&Noble

The age of patronage: The arts in society, 1660-1750

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Hamilton

Tudor portraits: success and failure of an age

History

Europe

Harrap

FOSS, MICHAEL. UNDREAMED SHORES, ENGLAND'S WASTED EMPIRE IN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974 , 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 186 pages. $15.00 First U.S. edition. Discussion of England's early attempts to colonize America. First U.S. edition. Discussion of England's early attempts to colonize America. 186 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Undreamed shores; England's wasted empire in America

Americas

A First Treasury of Nursery Rhymes: With Classic Illustrations (Picturemac)

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Pan/Macmillan

Chivalry

McKay

Undreamed shores: England's wasted empire in America

Scribner

251p hardback with dustjacket (torn), many plates, some in colour, index, very good

M.Joseph

Winner of the J. R. Ackerly Prize for Autobiography, 2002 Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. His was a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly harsh schooling, a bleak, dank landscape; and a sense of permanent cold and a savage hunger even for dreadful food. All of this was suddenly changed for the sub-continent's jumble of conflicting sights and sounds and smells: the vital, stinking, hot, noisy, crowded streets; the calm, quiet grace of moghul architecture; the ancient Hindu kingdoms reduced to stones amid the roots of trees; the monumental Victorian buildings that echoed British power; the attitudes of the Raj; the self-conscious majesty and pomp. This is a wry, affectionate reflection on a childhood spent between two continents, two civilizations, two versions of history.

Out Of India

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Reminiscence Large Print

Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit teeming vitality of wartime India. His was a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly harsh schooling, a bleak, dank landscape; and a sense of permanent cold and a savage hunger even for dreadful food. All of this was suddenly changed for the sub-continent's jumble of conflicting sights and sounds and smells: the vital, stinking, hot, noisy, crowded streets; the calm, quiet grace of Moghul architecture; the ancient Hindu kingdoms reduced to stones amid the roots of trees; the monumental Victorian buildings that echoed British power; the attitudes of the Raj; the self-conscious majesty and pomp. This is a wry, affectionate reflection on a childhood spent between two continents, two civilizations, two versions of history.

Memoirs

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