Giles Milton: 22 books
by Giles Milton
Language: French
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Qui peut imaginer aujourd'hui la valeur fabuleuse que représentait la petite noix muscade à la fin du XVIe siècle ? Giles Milton brode autour de la chasse aux épices une fabuleuse histoire des grands navigateurs et marchands du XVIIe siècle. Les fastes orientaux, l’exotisme, les rêves de richesse...
Les saboteurs de l'ombre
La guerre secrète de Churchill contre Hitler
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Au printemps 1939, une organisation très discrète est fondée à Londres, surnommée « l’armée secrète de Churchill » : elle a pour objectif de détruire la machine de guerre d’Hitler, au moyen d’actes de sabotage spectaculaires.
Les opérations de guérilla qui devaient frapper...
The Riddle and the Knight
In Search of Sir John Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.
His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most important book of the...
White Gold
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
The true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco
In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had...
Samurai William
The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg
In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William...
Russian Roulette
How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all...
Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought...
Big Chief Elizabeth
How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.
The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive,...
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