Zero to ten mai 2026 (13 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Erik Thorvaldsson (c. 950 - c. 1003), known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer described in medieval and Icelandic sage sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - George Stephenson (9 June 1781 - 12 August 1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. Renowned as the 'Father of Railways', Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and having a thirst for improvement.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti- colonial activist and political ethicist who employed non-violent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859 was an English Civil Engineer who is considered 'one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history' and 'one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator. On 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Gwydion needed all the courage he could muster. The Romans were approaching the ancient city of Camulodunum. Could they be stopped.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Harold Hardrada was the last of the great Viking leaders. Can he make his next adventure the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England! Since he was fifteen years old Harold had been a warrior - in Norway, Constantinople, Sicily, and the Holy Land. Now a legendary captain he is invited in 1066 to invade England at the side of Tostig Godwinson - half-brother to the English KingCan he claim the throne Can he trust Tostig But most of all can he beat the combined Anglo-Saxon forces.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Young Festus' family has been murdered and his home destroyed by the invaders. What should he do.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Grahame, called 'Bonnie Dundee', was the Jacobite hero. Although devoted to duty, he casts ambition aside to stand alone for his King and the Stuart dynasty in leading the Highland clans to an astounding victory at Killiecrankie in 1689. From the quagmires of treachery and self-interest, the heroic soldier is described in this vivid glimpse of one man's determined genius and bravery in the face of cruelty and destruction. In this portrayal of the first Jacobite, John Grahame of Claverhouse, Jane Lane presents both the violence and colour of Jacobite rebellion. 'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style.Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace.' Author John Prebble.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Farewell to the White Cockade' tells the tragic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his life-long exile trying to enlist support to recover his father's throne.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the savage cold of a February night, a company of soldiers obeyed the orders issued by William III to butcher a small branch of Clan Donald living in Glencoe. The tale of Government-sanctioned murder woven into a narrative featuring members of the family Donald. It creates strong characters on both sides of the tragedy which fuses the human costs with the official intolerance of the Scottish Highland clans of the period. Jane Lane has expanded a page of history into an epic in which courtesy and treachery, hospitality and betrayal, love and hate, are manifested by the men and women whose fate brought them together on that tragic winter night in 1692.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bass Rock home to a brooding fortress precipitously perched on the rocky island guarding the Firth of Forth and gaol to incarcerated Jacobite prisoners. In the summer of 1691 four Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke surprised the governor and guards and drove them out of the castle. The English Government placed the island and fortress under siege. For almost three years the defenders repelled any attempt to retake the Castle and played one of the most astounding games of bluff in history. Can they survive and escape with honour as free men A minor epic of Scottish History!.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'His Fight is Ours' follows the traumatic trials of MacLain, a Highland Chieftain of the Clan Donald, as he leads his people in the second Jacobite rising on behalf of James Stuart, the Old Pretender.