San Fransisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts and charlatans, millionaires and movie stars. The last stop on the journey West across America, or the first stop from Asia, San Fransisco managed to remain Wild long after the rest of the United States was tamed. Tales of Old San Francisco bathes the reader in the rich mysteries of the city, from the Chinatown to Haight-Ashbury, from the gold rush to earthquakes, from crooks to rock stars, beatniks to Hippies, and the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz. The city's history brims with colorful characters and extraordinary events, and this book gives all the highlights.
Автор: Earnshaw, Steven Название: Existential drinker ISBN: 0719099617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719099618 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 119680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label `existential`. -- .
Автор: Earnshaw Graham Название: Lost China: Travel Classics from the Ages ISBN: 9888552120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789888552122 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel memoirs published, particularly in the golden era of the late nineteenth century. These accounts, abridged and explained, concentrate on the gripping details with a constant commentary on the significance of what is being recounted. They are a window into old China and also into the mentality of the adventurers. Lost China is a digestible and exciting way of meeting some of the greatest travelers of a bygone age.
Автор: Earnshaw Graham Название: Memoirs of * * * *: Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar ISBN: 9888422286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789888422289 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "The Formosa Fraud," known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publication after his death in 1764, but even then he did not directly admit the fraud, and never revealed what his real name was. The Memoirs of "* * * *"--that is, the memoirs of George Psalmanzar--are a crucial part of the story of the deception, and provide a highly entertaining account of his youth in France. His pretense of being a Formosan allowed him to escape rural poverty and live most of his life in the world's great city of the time--London.
This book is a companion to The Formosa Fraud, by Graham Earnshaw, which details the stupendous fraud perpetrated by Psalmanazar. He claimed he was born on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that became the book, A Description of Formosa, which was a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. The Memoirs of "* * * *" provides the background to the story of one of the great frauds in literary history.
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