London George Allen: 2 books
The apostle of freedom
A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of nineteenth century Bulgaria.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Vasil Levsky, whom the Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, is Bulgaria's national hero; in the early 1870's he led an underground movement against the five-century-old Turkish occupation. A combination of Sir Galahad and Robin Hood, Vasil Levsky was an outlaw who outwitted his enemies and slipped...
Old-World Japan
Legends of the Land of the Gods (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
History and mythology, fact and fable, are closely interwoven in the texture of Japanese life and thought; indeed, it is within relatively recent years only that exact comparative criticism has been able, with some degree of accuracy, to divide the one from the other. The accounts of the God-period...