Albion

Author : Peter Doherty
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780752882420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books of Albion written by Peter Doherty and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' ''Poet, young and busy, seeks cheap spacious rooms somewhere. Excellent references available . . .'' so reads a self-penned ad, a very early entry from Pete Doherty's journals. From the early books a fascinating and very entertaining picture emerges of the young poet, broke in London, serving popcorn at the Prince Charles Cinema, ruminating on Britpop, listening to Scott Walker, but dreaming of creating a band infused with 'the spirit of Albion'. The later books reflect Pete's rise to fame, his changing world, and are full of artwork, photographs, notes and thoughts. It is intimate, honest stuff, very readable and very funny in places; pretty dark in others. All in all it's the work of a serious artist, a complete antidote to most things written about Doherty. These twenty-odd books - edited and condensed into one volume - are filled with poems, drawings, personal reflections, lyrics and collages, and is a powerfully compelling collection.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307424650
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199743698
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Author : Michael B. Barrett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253003539
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Albion written by Michael B. Barrett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a half-dozen zeppelins, and 80 aircraft, attacked the Baltic islands of Dago, Osel, and Moon at the head of the Gulf of Riga. It proved to be the most successful amphibious operation of World War I. The three islands fell, the Gulf was opened to German warships and was now a threat to Russian naval bases in the Gulf of Finland, and 20,000 Russians were captured. The invasion proved to be the last major operation in the East. Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.

Author : Sam Byers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571336302
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfidious Albion written by Sam Byers and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party 'England Always' is fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged think pieces; a riot of opinions - suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it had always imagined itself to be.

Author : John Matthew
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1782859381
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur of Albion written by John Matthew and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid retelling brings together the best-known stories about Arthur and his court, exploring the relationships between the main characters in the legends. Magnificent illustrations by Pavel Tatarnikov add to the atmosphere of Arthurian England.

Author : Kenneth Patchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201445
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Albion Moonlight written by Kenneth Patchen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.

Author : Gary Biltcliffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957238206
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spine of Albion written by Gary Biltcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.

Author : Mark Chadbourn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0553820214
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword of Albion written by Mark Chadbourn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1588: The London of Elizabeth I is rocked by news of a daring raid on the Tower. The truth is known only to a select few: that, for twenty years, a legendary doomsday device, its power fabled for millennia, has been kept secret and safe in the Tower.

Author : Ilka Tampke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925095312
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin written by Ilka Tampke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the people of Caer Cad, 'skin' is their totem, their greeting, their ancestors, their land Ailia does not have skin. Abandoned at birth, she serves the Tribequeen of her township. Ailia is not permitted to marry, excluded from tribal ceremonies and, most devastatingly, forbidden to learn. But the Mothers, the tribal ancestors, have chosen her for another path Lured by the beautiful and enigmatic Taliesin, Ailia embarks on an unsanctioned journey to attain the knowledge that will protect her people from the most terrifying invaders they have ever faced. Set in Iron-Age Britain on the cusp of Roman invasion, Skin is a thrilling, full-blooded, mesmerising novel about the collision of two worlds, and a young woman torn between two men.