Lemprière's Dictionary
As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lemprière published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third.This amazing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery and multinational financial conspiracies, and leads a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunk aristocrats and whores, assassins and octogenarian pirates t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4481-3940-8
- EAN: 9781448139408
- Produktnummer: 16233859
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 874 KB
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