Ernest Hemingway. Supplement to Ernest Hemingway - A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Princeton Legacy Library
This supplementary bibliography describes work by and about Ernest Hemingway published between 1966 and 1973. Part One lists publications by Hemingway, including six recent books, new editions of previously published volumes, and work by other authors to which Hemingway contributed. Translations and ant ...Show more
The Hidden Wordsworth - Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy by Kenneth R. Johnston
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on new research in government archives in Britain and France, school and university records and intimate letters, this book is a revealing account of a young poet who lived a life even Byron would have envied. In the narrative, the poet William Wordsworth emerges as a man of action during his yout ...Show more
Minding My Own Business by Percy Muir
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Here is a book which will fascinate alike the book collector and the casual reader. Nothing is more interesting than an expert talking shop - and how well Percy Muir talks it! He tells the story of the firm of Elkin Mathews, the antiquarian booksellers, with which he had been associated since 1930. Foun ...Show more
Cave in the Snow by Mackenzie Vicki
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.
Kiri Music and a Maori Girl
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
This is Kiri's story. It was Sister Mary Leo, of St Mary's School of Music, Auckland, who recognised the promise in the fresh young voice, and who taught Kiri Te Kanawa singing, and the personal disciplines that pave the way to the stars.
The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Hasst by H. F. Von Haast
190.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
This is the life-story of one of New Zealands foremost explorers and scientists, told by his son, one of his students in geology, and a former Pro-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand.
Plutarch's Lives. 6 Vols by John & William Longhorn
1250.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Plutarch's Lives, Translated From The Original Greek; With Notes Critical And Historical; And A Life Of Plutarch Third Edition By The Reverend Francis Wrangham
Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A hypnotic picture of the Tibet which has vanished New Statesman It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman The Way of the White Clouds is ...Show more
Burton - A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Byron Farwell
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The scope of this biography of Richard Burton does full justice to his life. "no man can be all things at once, no matter how hard he tried, but no man tried harder than Richard Francis Burton". He made significant contributions in the fields of literature and geography. He was also a poet, traveller, s ...Show more
Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career by Henry Blackburn
90.00 NZD
Category: Art
Delve into the fascinating life and early art career of Randolph Caldecott, one of the most influential illustrators of the 19th century. This personal memoir, penned by Henry Blackburn, offers a detailed account of Caldecott's journey from his early days in Chester to his rise as a beloved artist known ...Show more
The Bayard of India: A Life of General Sir James Outram by Lionel J. Trotter
160.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Step into the remarkable life of General Sir James Outram, a paragon of chivalry and military prowess in "The Bayard of India" by Lionel J. Trotter. This meticulously crafted biography, first published in 1903, offers an in-depth look at the illustrious career of a man whose unwavering integrity and str ...Show more
The British Bibliography of Edgar Wallace by W. O. G. Lofts; D. J. Adley
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Without question Edgar Wallace was the most prolific writer of popular fiction that the world has ever known. And here, in one volume, as complete and comprehensive as four years' research work by each of its joint authors can make it, is the first British bibliography of the works of this most widely-r ...Show more