Chew the Bones: Maddog Essays on Philippine History [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Couttie, Bob

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1442142596 ISBN 13: 9781442142596

Casa editrice: Createspace Independent Pub, 2009

Riassunto

Take a time-travelling journey of a thousand years of adventure and romance as you explore the unknown highways, byways and strange ways of an lmost forgotten world. Dip into a unique, ye-opening collection of true stories they didn't tell you at school.In this world slaves get benefits worthy of a corporate highflier. A redhaired hard-to-handle Hong Kong-born Irish teenager marries a man determined to change his country's destiny. England's Queen Victoria is given the world's most expensive wedding dress, made by Filipinos. The last cavalry charge in American history begins with a hangover as the first Japanese bombs drop on the Philippines. A Scots-American widow find a new purpose protecting and building lives for the indigenous Aeta people of the Zambales Mountains.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Createspace Independent Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1442142596
• ISBN 13: 9781442142596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 126