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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago by Roy Adkins
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the Englan ...Show more
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago by Roy Adkins
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women looking for love. Yet the comfortable, tranquil country that she brilliantly devised is a complete contrast to the England in ...Show more
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy Adkins; Lesley Adkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land ...Show more
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