Published by Viking for Penguin, London 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0670041203 ISBN 13: 9780670041206
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
19.0 x 14.0cms, 284pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper James Lind, a surgeon, Captain James Cook, the explorer, and Gilbert Blane, a physician, collaborated in their search to cure scurvy and 'irrevocably altered the course of world history'.
Published by Viking for Penguin, London 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0670914304 ISBN 13: 9780670914302
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
22.0 x 14.0cms, 432pp b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Winchester shows how the telegraph cable transmitted news of the volcanic explosion that killed 40,000 people and disrupted world trade.
Published by Viking for Penguin, London 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0067003133 ISBN 13: 9780067003138
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 492pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardback & cover This is 'the definitive account of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh casting 'radical new light on the mutiny, Bligh's character and the family connections and special interests that shaped the events.
Published by Viking for Penguin, London 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0067003133 ISBN 13: 9780067003138
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 492pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardback & cover This is 'the definitive account of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh casting 'radical new light on the mutiny, Bligh's character and the family connections and special interests that shaped the events.
Published by Viking for Penguin, London 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0670032026 ISBN 13: 9780670032020
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 384pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The sections are: Europe in the 11th century; the renaissance of the 12th century; the 13th century; Christendom in the early 14th century.