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A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with se ...Show more
The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano; Jean Stoner (Translator); Anthony Grafton (Introduction by)
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My L ...Show more
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