John Julius Norwich

The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

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The popular historian's annual 'Christmas Cracker' (a compendium of 365 literary odds and ends and quirky quotes), originally just a gift for Norwich's friends but soon after a prevalent part of Christmas tradition, has its best bits gathered together in this bumper edition.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5293-2490-7
EAN: 9781529324907
Produktnummer: 31922648
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.1 cm 338 g
Gewicht: 338

Über den Autor

After National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.