How England Made the English (Häftad)
avHarry Mount
ISBN: 9780670919147 - UTGIVEN: 2013-04Harry Mount's "How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours" is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories. Q. Why are English train seats so narrow? A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width [...]
Harry Mount's Odyssey
ISBN: 9781472904676 - UTGIVEN: 2015-09Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with,[...]
Denali / Mount McKinley (Spiral)
avHarry Kikstra
ISBN: 9781898481539 - UTGIVEN: 2006-08At 6194 m (20,320 ft) Denali (Mt McKinley) is the highest mountain in North America. Its arctic latitude makes for extreme weather conditions and its remote location in the Alaskan wilderness means that climbing teams must be self-reliant and experienced. The author focuses on the West Buttress rout[...]
