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  • av Ian Mortimer
    402 - 1 150,-

    A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

  • - A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
    av Ian Mortimer
    174,-

    Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century.

  • av Ian Mortimer
    174,-

  • - Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
    av Ian Mortimer
    180,-

    Travelling to Restoration Britain encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life - and this unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.

  • - 10 Centuries of Change on Earth
    av Ian Mortimer
    205,-

    Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.

  • av Ian Mortimer
    216,-

    Imagine traveling back in time to the fourteenth century, hundreds of years before electricity, indoor plumbing, and modern medicine. What would you eat? What would you wear? Where do you live? How do you travel? Was life really better for a lord or a king?In "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England," Ian Mortimer strips away the names, dates, and battles to put the reader in the starring role, walking through daily life in England in the Middle Ages. He shows what it really would have been like to live through this time, detailing everything from the horrors of war to the haute couture of the day. As a historical guidebook, "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" answers questions typically ignored in traditional histories. Readers will learn how to greet people on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician might want to taste blood, among other esoteric tidbits. Mortimer's book shows readers that the past is not just something to be studied, but something to be lived.

  • - Lessons in Life, Pain and Exhilaration - From 5K to the Marathon
    av Ian Mortimer
    140,-

    In this year-long memoir, the celebrated historian Ian Mortimer considers the meaning of running as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. From injuries and frustrated ambitions to exhilaration and empathy, it is a personal and yet universal account of what running means to people, and how it helps everyone focus on what really matters.

  • - New Perspectives
    av Ian Mortimer, Gwilym Dodd, Anthony Musson, m.fl.
    1 150,-

    A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign.

  • av Ian Mortimer
    360,-

  • av Ian Mortimer
    176,-

    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.

  • av Ian Mortimer
    243,-

    Does he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled England?'In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking book, he portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415, he offers the fullest, most precise and least romanticised view we have of Henry and what he did.

  • - The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
    av Ian Mortimer
    180,-

    The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.

  • - The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
    av Ian Mortimer
    194,-

    From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England. He ordered his uncle to be beheaded;

  • - The Life of England's Self-Made King
    av Ian Mortimer
    229,-

    In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. In 1399, at the age of thirty-two, he was enthusiastically greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the insecure and tyrannical King Richard II. But therein lay Henry's weakness.

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