Maurice: 1983 books

This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself. In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally...

Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) La réalisation d'une vieille prophétie dans une petite île bretonne, lors de la première guerre mondiale... Qui ne connaît pas Arsène Lupin ? Bien qu'il n'apparaisse que dans la seconde partie, cette aventure n'en est pas moins l'une de ses plus belles. Edité en 1919, ce roman allie policier et fantastique : un chef-d'oeuvre du genre !

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Les Mille et une nuits - Tome I & Tome II [Anonymous] Les Cinq Filles de Mrs Bennet (Orgueil et Préjugés) [Jane Austen] Le Père Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] Lettres de mon moulin [Alphonse Daudet]...

The 2007 Formula One Championship was the first since the legendary 1986 season in which three drivers went into the final race with the possibility of being crowned champion. And not since that fateful year, when Mansell, Piquet and Prost went head-to-head, has a season so captured the world's attention...

Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes is a collection of two adventures of Arsène Lupin, written by Maurice Leblanc. These adventures feature a match of wits between Lupin and Herlock Sholmes, a transparent reference to Sherlock Holmes, the hero of Conan Doyle's detective stories. It follows the appearance...

This volume contains the complete score for Joseph Ravel's 1920 solo piano composition, “La Valse”. Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) was a French pianist, composer, and conductor. He is considered to have been a significant figure within impressionism together with Claude Debussy, and he was...

Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became a busy dance band and symphonic trumpeter, and was drafted towards the end of the Korean conflict,...

This book presents the complete score for Joseph Ravel's 1912 solo piano composition, “Daphnis et Chloé”. Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) was a French pianist, composer, and conductor. He is considered to have been a significant figure within impressionism together with Claude Debussy, and...

Cette édition reprend en parallèle la pièce originale de Maurice Maeterlinck en vis à vis avec le livret retravaillé conjointement avec Claude Debussy. Si la pièce aujourd'hui semble en disgrâce, cette double édition permet de mettre en valeur l'architecture dramatique des deux œuvres, très proches par le texte et pourtant construites très différemment.

Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) was a French pianist, composer, and conductor. He is considered to have been a significant figure within impressionism together with Claude Debussy, and he was hailed as France's greatest living composer during the early twentieth century. Ravel's music is famous...

The adrenaline-fueled, high-octane world of Formula One has created some of the greatest moments in sporting history. Its infamous circuits have played host to intense rivalries that have produced moments of tragedy and triumph that read like a film script.  Since the 1950s, Bernard Cahier...

Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family and friends up to the defeat of the British during...

The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization...

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship....