Scenes of Edwardian life

Politics & Social Sciences

PETRIE, CHARLES

Social Sciences

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On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest, the highest place on earth. They became heroes. But who was Tenzing? What was the trajectory from the Yak pastures of Solo Kum to the heroes' reception at Buckingham Palace and how did he see it? How did he view his own illiterate and primitive background? What was his point of view on the differences that arose between the British and Asians during the Expeditions? In this text, Tenzing himself answers these questions.

Man of Everest: The autobiography of Tenzing

Norgay, Tenzing

secondhand copy, with previous owners bookplate on ffep. DJ is somewaht discoloured but in good overall condition, had been mylar covered for protection. some tanning to page edges, 253pp, 8vo

Invasion '44: The full story of D-Day

Turner, John Frayn

Sword of bone: The Phoney War and Dunkirk, 1940

Rhodes, Anthony Richard Ewart

Harris's Requiem

Thomas Harris is on the cusp of great success as a classical composer, but for every success, he gets a knock back. This gripping, superbly crafted novel portrays the classical music world of the late 1950s as it follows Harris's compelling journey.

Harris's requiem

Literature & Fiction

MIDDLETON, Stanley

Literary

They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki rousers, black belts and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County Limerick – The Black and Tans.Although they were only a small proportion of British forces in Ireland, they were the toughest, the wildest and the most feared. They knew nothing and they cared nothing about Ireland. They were sent there in March 1920 by Lloyd George’s coalition cabinet to make Ireland ‘a hell for rebels to live in’.Richard Bennett’s book is an accurate and authoritative account of an ugly and harrowing period in Anglo-Irish history – a period that the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember.

The Black and Tans

History

BENNETT, Richard

Europe

The Stuarts: A study in English kingship

Kenyon, J.P.

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