Terry Breverton: 18 books
Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions
A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries and Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Invention and innovation are what distinguish the human race from all of the other species on Earth. Throughout history the imagination and pioneering spirit of human kind has compelled us to question why we do things in a certain way and, more importantly, how we can do things better.
Celebrating...
Breverton's Complete Herbal
A Book of Remarkable Plants and Their Uses
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This incredibly diverse compendium contains just about everything you'll ever need to know about the properties and provenance of herbs and spices of the world. From amara dulcis to yarrow, all-heal to viper's bugloss, Breverton's Complete Herbal is a modern day treasury of over 250 herbs and their...
Breverton's Phantasmagoria
A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
From dragons and wyverns to vampires, werewolves and mischievous gremlins, pixies and fairies, Breverton's Phantasmagoria is a unique compendium of over 250 mythical animals.
Prepare to revisit familiar myths, such as vampires, werewolves and the Loch Ness Monster, the Minotaur and Medusa from...
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities
A Book of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, the focus of this book is on the unusual, the overlooked or the downright extraordinary. Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given equal coverage to Admiral...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
A remarkable compendium of oddities, curiosities and little-known facts from the Great War What was a trench rabbit? What was known as a 'suicide ditch'? What were 'coffin nails'? Why did the Kaiser ban the production of sausages? What was the real 'War Horse'? Who was a 'donkey walloper'? Featuring...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A new and uniquely accessible history of Wales. This comprehensive and authoritative companion to Wales, its people and its millennia of history can be enjoyed by armchair travellers and tourists alike. The respected historian Terry Breverton presents the characters, events, buildings and institutions...
Henry VII
The Maligned Tudor King
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The hunchback usurper Richard III...
Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
If it had not been for Owain Glyndŵrs 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europes oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales.
Yet Glyndŵr is hardly known a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Tudor Family is the most intriguing royal dynasty in British history. Their era took us out of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, founded the British Empire and made Britain a world power for the first time. The flowering of literature and music was unprecedented in British history. And...
The Tudor Kitchen
What the Tudors Ate & Drank
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? What was Elizabeth I's first meal after the defeat of the Spanish Armada? Which pies did Henry VIII gorge on to go from a 32 to a 54-inch waist? The Tudor Kitchen provides a new history of the Tudor kitchen, and over 500 sumptuous – and more everyday...
The Tudor Cookbook
From Gilded Peacock to Calves Feet Pie
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? What was served at the courtly feasts of Henry VIII, or what kept peasants alive through the harsh winters of the sixteenth century? The Tudor Cookbook provides over 250 recipes from authentic period manuals for starters, mains, desserts and drinks, from...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Immortal Words is an anthology of history's most memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotations from all ages and nations. The texts are drawn not only from the works and words of great writers, thinkers and orators, but also from less well-known sources such as gravestones, book dedications,...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain’s four oldest cathedrals, and how after one and a half millennia of constant invasions...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Immortal Last Words is a fascinating, diverse collection of history's most uplifting, entertaining and thought-provoking dying remarks and final farewells.
The 370 entries in this book have been drawn from some of history's greatest statesmen, poets, scientists, novelists and warriors--the...
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